Book description
For the young Richard Bolitho the spring of 1778 marked a complete
transformation for himself and his future. It was the year in which
the American War of Independence changed to an all-out struggle for
freedom from British rule - and the year when Bolitho took command of
the Sparrow, a small, fast and well-armed sloop of war.
As the pace of war increased, the Sparrow was called from one
crisis to another - and when the great fleets of Britain and France
convened on the Chesapeake, Bolitho had to throw aside the early
dreams of his first command to find maturity in a sea battle that
might decide the fate of a whole continent.
Alexander Kent is the author of twenty-seven acclaimed books
featuring Richard Bolitho. Under his own name, Douglas Reeman, and in
the course of a career spanning forty-five years, he has written over
thirty novels and two non-fiction books.
