Relentless Pursuit (The Bolitho Novels) - Hardcover

Kent, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590130006 ISBN 13: 9781590130001

Publisher: McBooks Pr, 2001

Synopsis

December 1815.... Isolated in grief, Captain Adam Bolitho has no choice. Preoccupied with avenging his uncle's death but following orders, he must sail the 46-gun frigate Unrivalled to Sierra Leone to aid His Majesty's campaign against slave-runners. But confronting an ill-fitted fleet, an entrenched adversary, and the aggressive opposition of the Algerian overlord, he may be setting his crew on a course of doom. . . .

About this title

From the Publisher:

Alexander Kent is the pseudonym of Douglas Edward Reeman. Reeman joined the British Navy at 16, serving on destroyers and small craft during World War II and eventually rising to lieutenant. He later worked as a detective in the Criminal Investigation Division of the London Metropolitan Police and as a children`s welfare officer. He has taught navigation to yachtsmen and served as a script adviser for television and films. He travels extensively, scouting locations for his books. His interests include sailing, cruising, exploring beaches, and bird watching. He is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and has served as president of the British Sailors Society. The Alexander Kent `Richard Bolitho` series now numbers 24 volumes. Reeman has also written over a score of books under his own name, including both fiction and non-fiction accounts of World War II naval warfare.

From the Inside Flap:

It is December 1815 and Adam Bolitho's orders are unequivocal. As captain of His Majesty's frigate Unrivalled of forty-six guns, he is required to 'repair in the first instance to Freetown, Sierra Leone, and reasonable assist the senior officer of the patrolling squadron'. But all efforts of the British anti-slavery patrols to curb a flourishing trade in human life are hampered by unsuitable ships, and the indifference of a government more concerned with old enemies made distrustful allies, and the continuing belligerence of the Dey of Algiers, which threatens to ignite a full-scale war.

For Adam, also, there is no peace. Lost in grief and loneliness, his uncle's death still unavenged, he is uncertain of all but his identity as a man of war. The sea is his element, the ship his only home, and a reckless, perhaps doomed attack on an impregnable stronghold his only hope of settling the bitterest of debts.

About this edition

• Publisher: McBooks Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1590130006
• ISBN 13: 9781590130001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320