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PELLEW: FLEET ACTION
Midshipman Gerry Pellew escaped a French prison with nothing but the clothes on his back and a debt to the men who didn't make it out. Now, aboard HMS Lark, he's determined to become the officer his late father would have been proud of — if the war doesn't take him first.
The blockade off Brest is a slow grind of fog, storms, and waiting — until Lark crosses paths with the Junon, a French frigate captained by a man as skilled and honorable as any Gerry has faced. Twice they meet, first in the fog and then in a squall. The third time, there will be nowhere left to hide.
As intelligence mounts that the French fleet means to break out in force while shepherding a massive convoy. Gerry is thrust into boarding actions, brutal storms, and the command decisions that separate boys from officers. When the fleets finally collide in the war's largest engagement yet, Gerry will fight not just for victory, but for those who depend upon him and his own brother, serving somewhere in that same battered fleet — home alive.
A story of duty, grief, and the strange respect that can grow between enemies, for readers who can't get enough of Hornblower, Aubrey-Maturin, and the golden age of naval adventure.
Genre: Historical
Midshipman Gerry Pellew escaped a French prison with nothing but the clothes on his back and a debt to the men who didn't make it out. Now, aboard HMS Lark, he's determined to become the officer his late father would have been proud of — if the war doesn't take him first.
The blockade off Brest is a slow grind of fog, storms, and waiting — until Lark crosses paths with the Junon, a French frigate captained by a man as skilled and honorable as any Gerry has faced. Twice they meet, first in the fog and then in a squall. The third time, there will be nowhere left to hide.
As intelligence mounts that the French fleet means to break out in force while shepherding a massive convoy. Gerry is thrust into boarding actions, brutal storms, and the command decisions that separate boys from officers. When the fleets finally collide in the war's largest engagement yet, Gerry will fight not just for victory, but for those who depend upon him and his own brother, serving somewhere in that same battered fleet — home alive.
A story of duty, grief, and the strange respect that can grow between enemies, for readers who can't get enough of Hornblower, Aubrey-Maturin, and the golden age of naval adventure.
Genre: Historical
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