Blurbs

`Past anchored frigates, lean and deadly as lurchers; betwixt two lives of mixed sixty-fours and seventy-fours . . . Somewhere among them must lie his own Daisy. He scanned their sterns for the magic name but saw it not . . . Beyond the buoys were a line of piles close inshore, such as were used for colliers, herring boats, harbour craft and the like. At the end of a line of such humble vessels, close by Haslar pier, was a small, full-rigged ship with a string of - he made a swift count – nine gun ports along her side. And a grimy white ensign drooped forlornly from her mizzen peak. Oakshott knew upon the instant, and with a sudden lowering of the spirits and sinking of the heart, that he was gazing upon his new command.'

So begins Commander Lord Charles Oakshott'! new promotion, and as he sallies forth to war he knows that he faces not one enemy but three. The first is France, newly at war with England in the aftermath of the Revolution. The second is his ship, grimy, down-at-heel and riddled with death watch beetle. And the third is his crew, mutinous and very low on morale. The ship's log, with its record of flogging, courts martial and hanging, tells its own dismal tale.

But Oakshott is a man born to command, whose seamanship has been learned in a hard school. He does not intend to be daunted. Not even when he learns that he has to carry two unwanted passengers to Toulon, and then that their mysterious and extremely precious baggage has led him into an enemy trap.

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