With All Despatch

Kent, Alexander (pseud Douglas Reeman)

ISBN 10: 043438836X / ISBN 13: 9780434388363

Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1988

About this Item

First edition, first impression. Very minor creasing to top of spine, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall in excellent condition. A Richard Bolitho adventure.

Seller Inventory # 000784

Bibliographic Details

• Title: With All Despatch
• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 043438836X
• ISBN 13: 9780434388363
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

A historical maritime thriller featuring Captain Richard Bolitho, who accepts an appointment on the Nore as the threat of war between England and France mounts. From the author of HONOUR THIS DAY.

From the Inside Flap

At the end of a troubled peace Richard Bolitho is plunged into bloody action.

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.