A Game of Bones

by David Donachie

Overview

Following an encounter with a mystery vessel, the red flags fluttering from the top masts of the "Bucephalas" signal that His Majesty's Navy has reached a state of mutiny. However, Harry Ludlow soon finds himself back at sea and staking everything he owns in a bid to alter the course of history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749019327
Publisher:	Allison & Busby, Limited
Publication date:	12/17/2015
Series:	Privateersman , #6
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	423
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Born in Edinburgh in 1944, David Donachie has had a variety of jobs, including selling everything from business machines to soap. He has always had an abiding interest in the naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author of a number of bestselling books, he now lives in Deal, Kent with his wife, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook and their two children.

Editorial Reviews

(Praise for David Donachie's other books) “Exciting and unpredictable.

The Bookbag

A must for armchair mariners. . . . It's superb stuff.

Manchester Evening News

High adventure and detection cunningly spliced.

Times of London Literary Review

(Praise for David Donachie's other books) “Pure adventure with excitement and daring all the way . . . historical fiction at its very best.

Historical Novels Review Online

Battle scenes which reek of blood and brine; excitements on terra firma to match . . ."

Literary Review

(Praise for David Donachie's other books) “High-speed epic from an ace storyteller.

Daily Sport

Outflanking and out-gunning C. S. Forester.

Cambridge Evening News

"High adventure and detection cunningly spliced."  —Times of London Literary Review



"Battle scenes which reek of blood and brine; excitements on terra firma to match."  —Literary Review

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