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With All Despatch

With All Despatch

by Alexander Kent
Publication Date: 05/01/2006

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A troubled peace with France means that in the harbours and estuaries around England, the royal fleet has been left to rot. Even a frigate captain as famous as Richard Bolitho is forced to swallow his pride and visit the Admiralty daily to plead for a ship. As the clouds of war begin to rise once more over the Channel, he has no choice but to accept an appointment to the Nore. With his small flotilla of three topsail cutters Bolitho sets out to search the coast for seamen who have fled the harsh discipline of His Majesty's Navy for the more tempting rewards of smuggling. But the 'Brotherhood' he comes up against are brutal and dangerous with a secret, sinister trade in human misery. Treason is never far distant and murder commonplace. So when a King's ransom is in peril and Bolitho is ordered to proceed 'with all despatch' to recover it he will need all the loyalty and courage of his three gallant cutters if he is to fulfil his mission.
ISBN:
9780099493884
9780099493884
Category:
Historical Fiction
Publication Date:
05-01-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
199x129x20mm
Weight:
0.24kg
Alexander Kent

Alexander Kent is writer Douglas Edward Reeman's pseudonym.

Reeman was born at Thames Ditton 15 October 1924 (age 90), is a British author who has written many historical fiction books on the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars.

Kent was the name of Alexander's friend and naval officer who died during the Second World War.

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