Book description
OCTOBER 1789, NEW SOUTH WALES
Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate
Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing
the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who
hopes to be ordered home to England.
Instead he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great
South Sea, where he must face hazards of fickle winds, pirates and
savage islanders. But he is menaced by deeper fears; the men of the
Bounty have mutinied in these same waters; and from distant Europe
comes news of a revolution in France...
Alexander Kent is the author of twenty-eight 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.
