A green cloth bound book with gilt lettering to the spine which has a very few dust marks to top edge of an otherwise pristine page block - in VERY GOOD PLUS condition. In a clipped dust wrapper VERY GOOD PLUS condition.

£16.00 PLUS P & P

Blurbs

After his dramatic exploits in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Richard Delancey is posted to command the frigate Laura for service in the East Indies—`the most distant station, remote enough to be forgotten, a place where fortunes were made by the fortunate, a place where many died and where others gained promotion'. The pain of separation from his young wife Fiona after three years' marriage forms the background to Delancey's further adventures.

After taking part in the capture of the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch, Delancey becomes involved in the protection of the East India Company's China Fleet which the French are seeking to intercept. He is then ordered to pursue and destroy the privateer Subtile, commanded by the elusive Pierre Chatelard, before playing his part in the combined operations against the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius. It is against an exotic setting of Oriental customs, mangrove swamps and myriad scents that Delancey discovers his long-lost brother and tracks down the enemy agent Fabius, first encountered as a murderer in The Fireship.

The story reaches its climax during an action off Madagascar, in which all Delancey's skills and courage are tested in a unique combat against two French frigates, before his return with honours and his reunion with Fiona after six years at sea.

Jacket illustration by Val Biro