Book description
In March 1808, as Napoleon holds Portugal and threatens his old ally
Spain, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is dispatched once more to the
Cape of Good Hope to establish a permanent naval force there.
Setting aside his bitter memories and the anguish of a friendship
betrayed, Bolitho takes passage in the ill-fated Golden Plover. With
him sail others commanded by duty and lured by danger - and those who
wish only to escape.
But when shipwreck and disaster overtake the Golden Plover off the
desolate coast of Africa, neither the innocent nor the damned are
spared. Beyond the tortured hell of the reef, Bolitho's battle begins
- to summon the survivors' last reserves of courage and of hope.
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.
