Sword Of Honour: (The Richard Bolitho adventures: 25): the Bolitho legend continues with another stirring tale from the master storyteller of the sea

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With the epic scenes of action, powerful characterisation and the authentic period detail that we have come to expect from multi-million copy seller Alexander Kent, this all-action naval adventure is perfect for fans of Patrick O’Brian and C. S. Forester. You’ll be hooked from page one! ‘One of our foremost writers of naval fiction’ – THE SUNDAY TIMES’A real page-turner’ — ***** Reader review’Masterful and emotional’ — ***** Reader review ‘Another great story, gripping to the end’ — ***** Reader review’Riveting’ — ***** Reader review*******************************************************************************************1814: Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months’ rigorous patrolling off the North American coast. War with the United States has not yet ended, but news of Napoleon’s defeat and abdication has stunned a navy and a nation bled by years of European conflict.Victory has been the impossible dream and now, for Bolitho, a vision of the future and a personal peace seems attainable.However an unsympathetic Admiralty dispatches him to Malta. Is this appointment a compliment or a malicious ploy to keep Bolitho from the woman he loves and the freedom he craves? He cannot know, but the voice of duty speaks more insistently even than the voice of the heart, and in this familiar sea where both glory and tragedy have touched his life, Bolitho must confront the future, the renaissance of a hated tyrant, and the fulfilment of destiny.

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