Book description
Antigua 1817
Every harbour and estuary is filled with ghostly ships, the famous
and the legendary now redundant in the aftermath of the war. In this
uneasy peace, Adam Bolitho is fortunate to be offered the seventy-four
gun Athena, and as flag captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Graham
Bethune once more follows his destiny to the Caribbean.
But in these haunted waters where Richard Bolitho and his 'band of
brothers' once fought a familiar enemy, the quarry is now a renegade
foe who flies no colours and offers no quarter, and whose traffic in
human life is sanctioned by flawed treaties and men of influence. And
here, and when Athena's guns speak, a day of terrible
retribution will dawn for the innocent and the damned.
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.
