High adventure and detection; cunningly spliced battle scenes which reek of blood and brine; excitements on terra firma to match.
― Literary Review
Outflanking and out-gunning C. S. Forester.
― Cambridge Evening News
Pure adventure with excitement and daring all the way . . . historical fiction at its very best.
-- Historical Novels Review Online
High-speed epic from an ace storyteller.
― Daily Sport
Exciting and unpredictable.
― The Bookbag Praise for Donachie’s John Pearce series
High adventure and detection; cunningly spliced battle scenes which reek of blood and brine; excitements on terra firma to match. —Literary Review
Outflanking and out-gunning C. S. Forester. —Cambridge Evening News
Pure adventure with excitement and daring all the way . . . historical fiction at its very best. —Historical Novels Review Online
High-speed epic from an ace storyteller. —Daily Sport
Exciting and unpredictable. —The Bookbag
From the Publisher
An avowed lover of naval fiction with a streak of mischief, David Donachie has sailed into a breach in the nautical genre by blending seagoing adventure with the mystery and twists of a whodunnit. A Scot by birth, he lives on the Channel coast of England, where he works to keep his inspirations in motion ("I have about three ideas a day . . . by the way, all my ideas are great") and has lately published a biographical novel about Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton. He now lives in Deal with his partner, Sarah and two children, Thomas and Charlotte.
About the Author
David Donachie (1944–2023) was born in Edinburgh. He always had an abiding interest in military history, including ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, the British navy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the clandestine services during the Second World War. He had more than fifty published novels to his credit, with over a million combined sales. David lived in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea.
