Second To None
By (Author) Alexander Kent
Cornerstone
Arrow Books Ltd
1st March 2007
4th January 2007
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 19mm
223g
Another thrilling Bolitho adventure! June 1815 On the eve of Waterloo, a sense of finality and cautious hope pervade a nation wearied by decades of war. But peace will present its own challenge to Adam Bolitho, captain of His Majesty's Ship Unrivalled, as many of his contemporaries face the prospect of discharge. The life of a frigate captain is always lonely, but for Adam, mourning the death of his uncle Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho, that solitude acquires a deeper poignancy. He is, more than ever, alone, at the dawning of a new age for the Royal Navy, where the only constants are the sea and those enemies, often masked in the guise of friendship, who conspire to destroy him.
Shipwreck, survival... a spirited battle... a splendid yarn * Times *
One of our foremost writers of naval fiction * Sunday Times *
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.