Book description
It is 1943, and Captain Mike Blackwood, Royal Marine Commando, is a
survivor. Young, toughened and tried in the hellish crucible of Burma,
he labours, sometimes faltering, beneath the weight of tradition, the
glorious heritage of his family, and the burden of his own self-doubt.
For Blackwood, the horizon is not the lip of the trench seen by men
of the Corps in the previous war, but the ramp of a landing craft
smashing down into the sea, and the fire of the enemy on a Sicilian
beach. Here, tradition is not enough, and Mike Blackwood must find
within himself qualities of leadership which will inspire those Royal
Marines who are once again the first to land, and among the first to
die.
This is the fourth novel in the Blackwood saga, spanning 150 years
in the history of a great seafaring family and the tradition in which
they served.
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 bestselling historical novels featuring
Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.
