Book News: "At long last, the successor to the Hornblower novels."
Back cover: "Here is a magnificent novel of the sea, set in the West Indies during the last years of the American Revolution. The time is January, 1782, and British Captain Richard Bolitho is ordered to take command of the frigate Phalarope, whose officers have avoided battle, and whose crew has been nutinous. Once in the Carribbean, where the hard-pressed royal squadrons are fighting for their lives against the French, the Spanish, and the Americans, Bolitho finds he must do battle with his own men as well ....
Back cover: "Here is a magnificent novel of the sea, set in the West Indies during the last years of the American Revolution. The time is January, 1782, and British Captain Richard Bolitho is ordered to take command of the frigate Phalarope, whose officers have avoided battle, and whose crew has been nutinous. Once in the Carribbean, where the hard-pressed royal squadrons are fighting for their lives against the French, the Spanish, and the Americans, Bolitho finds he must do battle with his own men as well ....
