Sloop of War Author:Alexander Kent Berkley Medallion Books (c) 1972 — Publication date January 1974 — The year is 1778, the ship is the HMS Sparrow, England's finest sloop of war, and the captain is Richard Bolitho, sailing his command into the fury of battle. The American Revolution has turned the Atlantic coast into a refuge for privateers and marauding French war ships - when th... more »e Sparrow comes upon the scene, bloody action soon follows. It is up to the young Bolitho to fight the colonial rebels on the one hand, and to stave off the treachery of a beautiful woman and the dangerous incompetence of a senior officer with the other.« less