Book description
The tenth Richard Bolitho novel in Alexander Kent's spectacularly
successful series deals with Bolitho's life as a young lieutenant
aboard the Trojan, an eighty-gun ship of the line.
The year is 1777 when the revolution in America has erupted into a
full-scale war. The navy's main task is to prevent military supplies
from reaching Washington's armies and to destroy the fast-growing
fleet of French and American privateers. As a junior officer Bolitho
is often bewildered by swiftly changing events, but in a ship of the
line, under a hard and determined captain, he has little opportunity
for uncertainty. At a time of shortages and sudden death even a
lieutenant can find himself faced with tasks and decisions more
suitably given to officers of greater experience - and as the
Trojan goes about her affairs the threat to Bolitho and his
companions makes itself felt from New York to the Caribbean.
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.
