Passage To Mutiny: another stirring page-turner featuring Richard Bolitho from the master storyteller of the sea

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Another exciting Bolitho adventure! Readers of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester will love this sensational swashbuckling naval adventure from multi-million copy seller Alexander Kent. 'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction' - Sunday Times 'Shipwreck, survival...a spirited battle, a splendid yarn' - The Times 'A fantastic book - did not want to put it down' -- ***** Reader review 'Well written, nautically and historically excellent' -- ***** Reader review 'A fast moving, captivating, page turner - not recommended if you want to go to sleep right away' -- ***** Reader review 'A rollicking maritime yarn' -- ***** Reader review ********************************************************************************************* 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 native 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... Bolitho's adventures continue in With All Despatch.

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"Praise for Alexander Kent: 'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction' Sunday Times" "'Shipwreck, survival ... a spirited battle ... a splendid yarn' The Times"

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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.