Pellew: Boarders Away
Gerald Pellew is fourteen years old, the son of a dead admiral, and newly turned over to the Ardent when she sails straight into a trap off Ushant. Out-gunned by the combined fleets of France and Spain, the ship strikes her colours, and Gerry is marched into a French prison to rot.
What follows is hunger, fever, and the slow dying of the men around him, but a boy who has been well taught does not lie down. When a winter storm tears open the prison wall, Gerry and a small powder-boy slip into the flooded river with nothing but a hidden coat and a promise to keep. They set out to steal a boat and reach the English ships blockading the coast.
Survival is only the beginning. To come home he must fight his way back into the service he was born to, cutlass in hand, on the deck of an enemy sloop.
A tale of the Age of Sail: of capture and captivity, of loyalty and loss, and of a boy who goes out to sea a child and comes back a man.
Genre: Thriller
Gerald Pellew is fourteen years old, the son of a dead admiral, and newly turned over to the Ardent when she sails straight into a trap off Ushant. Out-gunned by the combined fleets of France and Spain, the ship strikes her colours, and Gerry is marched into a French prison to rot.
What follows is hunger, fever, and the slow dying of the men around him, but a boy who has been well taught does not lie down. When a winter storm tears open the prison wall, Gerry and a small powder-boy slip into the flooded river with nothing but a hidden coat and a promise to keep. They set out to steal a boat and reach the English ships blockading the coast.
Survival is only the beginning. To come home he must fight his way back into the service he was born to, cutlass in hand, on the deck of an enemy sloop.
A tale of the Age of Sail: of capture and captivity, of loyalty and loss, and of a boy who goes out to sea a child and comes back a man.
Genre: Thriller
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