DEVIL TO PAY

A navy cloth bound book with gilt lettering to the spine - some shelf wear to spine in VERY GOOD condition. In a price clipped - front flap creased wrapper VERY GOOD.

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DEVIL TO PAY
C. Northcote Parkinson

A flurry of snow, the sound of a coach in the street outside and almost before he knows it Richard Delancey's naval career has taken a new turn. An injured man is carried into the inn and Delancey hears who it is. In a matter of minutes he is ducking the freezing spray in the sheets of a ferry close-hauled for Cowes. His ruses during the following weeks against the smugglers of Poole attract the attention of the Guernsey privateers, who divert him to Biscay and the French coast. But he scarcely expected to find himself at the head of a band of desperadoes in the highlands of Spain —playing a dangerous hand far from the sound of the sea.

In Devil to Pay C. Northcote Parkinson captures his life-long enthusiasm for the age of sail, and for the heroic sea-campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. His story moves fast; Delancey is both dreamer and man of action, sensitive and tough, a real man of the sea.