The Price of Glory: A compelling high seas adventure set in the lead up to the Napoleonic wars
By (Author) Seth Hunter
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
12th April 2011
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
448
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 36mm
363g
The third novel in this epic, thrilling series of war and villainy on the high seas, featuring Captain Nathan Peake.
Nathan Peake charts a perilous course through the treacherous seas off Brittany and into the even more dangerous waters of post-Revolutionary Paris. There he encounters two of the most beautiful and scandalous courtesans in history - and their little toy soldier, laughingly dubbed Captain Cannon, who is about to win enduring fame as Napoleon Bonaparte. Returned to the command of the frigate Unicorn, Nathan is sent to join another young glory-seeker, Captain Horatio Nelson, in a bid to wreck Bonaparte s plans for the invasion of Italy. But Nathan has his own private agenda to find his lost love amid the chaos of war and as the fighting spreads from the mountains to the sea, he discovers that glory comes at a higher price than all the gold in the vaults of Genoa."A well-researched novel that draws you into the dangers of life in France post-1789. A highly compelling read." --"Historical Novels Review "on "The Time of Terror"
"Another slick nautical adventure in the Patrick O'Brian tradition . . . rousing naval battles, twisty plot, and muscular prose." --"Publishers Weekly "on" The Tide of War"
Seth Hunter is the pseudonym of the author of a number of highly acclaimed and prize-winning adult and children's novels. He has written and directed many historical dramas for television, radio and the theatre. Seth Hunter lives in London.