Book description
January 1970, and the final chapter in the Blackwood history appears
to have closed with the murder in Cyprus of Lieutenant-Colonel Mike
Blackwood, and the subsequent sale of the ancestral home.
Disillusioned and grieving for his distinguished father, Lieutenant
Ross Blackwood believes there is no future for him in the Corps. The
Royal Marines have been reduced in strength, and their role in a
modern world, after so splendid a tradition, diminished to policing
and paperwork.
But Ross remains a Blackwood and a Royal Marine, and the loyalty and
dedication of a Blackwood to the Corps sustain him from vicious
guerilla warfare in Malaysia through the moral and political
minefields of Northern Ireland, where one man's terrorist is another's
patriot, to the South Atlantic, and a conflict as bloody as it is unpredictable.
And he learns, as every Blackwood has before him, that jungle or
moor, insurrection or invasion, mere courage is not enough. Survival
and victory balance on the knife edge of destiny.
Douglas Reeman did convoy duty in the navy in the Atlantic. The
Arctic and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his
own name and more than twenty five historical novels featuring Richard
Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.
