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A Shot Rolling Ship David Donachie

A Shot Rolling Ship By David Donachie

A Shot Rolling Ship by David Donachie


Condition - Very Good
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Summary

Pressed into King George's Navy for the second time in a month, John Pearce and his Pelicans find themselves working aboard HMS Griffin, a slow and over crowded ship, sailing the Channel in search of the numerous French privateers that prey on English merchant shipping: her task to stop them and, if possible, to capture or destroy them.

A Shot Rolling Ship Summary

A Shot Rolling Ship by David Donachie

Pressed into King George's Navy for the second time in a month, John Pearce and his Pelicans find themselves working aboard HMS Griffin, a slow and over crowded ship, sailing the Channel in search of the numerous French privateers that prey on English merchant shipping: her task to stop them and, if possible, to capture or destroy them. But Pearce has greater things on his mind: he must rescue his ailing father from the dangers of revolutionary Paris, and to do that he must somehow leave the ship. He does so with the help of Benjamin Colbourne, the Captain aboard Griffin. Travelling to France, Pearce discovers that his worst fears have become reality: he is too late to save his father, who is sent to the guillotine. Pearce is left with no choice but return to the Griffin to put right the appearance of betrayal with which he left, and to learn his sea-going trade in order to exact revenge...

A Shot Rolling Ship Reviews

'High adventure and detection; cunningly spliced battle scenes which reek of blood and brine, and excitements on terra firma to match' Literary Review

About David Donachie

Born in Edinburgh in 1944, David Donachie has had a variety of jobs, including selling everything from business machines to soap. He has always had an abiding interest in the naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author of a number of bestselling books, he now lives in Deal, Kent with his wife, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook and their two children.

Additional information

GOR001306059
9780749081058
0749081058
A Shot Rolling Ship by David Donachie
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Allison & Busby
2007-01-15
386
N/A
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