The Contraband Shore

by David Donachie

Overview

The first volume in The Contraband Shore trilogy.

1787: Captain Edward Brazier is on a mission. Recently paid off from his frigate and comfortable with prize money, he is headed to Deal to propose marriage to the lovely young widow Betsey Langridge. And while there, he must navigate the bustle of the town’s narrow streets busy with illicit and depraved business flowing from and around the ships at anchor.

But all does not go well; between Betsey’s brother and guardian, Henry Tulkington, prohibiting the match and Brazier being marked out for trouble by a local smuggling gang, his plans are in disarray. And when it slowly emerges that there may have been a decades-old injustice closer to home, Brazier is caught up in more than he’d bargained for.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493074051
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/01/2023
Series:	The Contraband Shore , #1
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.24(w) x 7.58(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

David Donachie (1944–2023) was born in Edinburgh. He always had an abiding interest in military history, including ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, the British navy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the clandestine services during the Second World War. He had more than fifty published novels to his credit, with over a million combined sales. David lived in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea.

Editorial Reviews

It is a pleasure to read a novel so convincing in its detail, and the description of a complete smuggling operation (although aborted) shows expert planning and sharp-witted improvisation.

Historical Novels Review Online

High-speed epic from an ace storyteller.

Daily Sport

A rollicking, highly charged read, full of eighteenth-century atmosphere.

Good Book Guide

High adventure and detection; cunningly spliced battle scenes which reek of blood and brine; excitements on terra firma to match

Literary Review

Exciting and unpredictable.

The Bookbag

Compulsively readable.

Cambridge Evening News

"It is a pleasure to read a novel so convincing in its detail, and the description of a complete smuggling operation (although aborted) shows expert planning and sharp-witted improvisation."

Historical Novels Review