
A Game of Bones
David Donachie
(Author)Description
The long-awaited return of the Bucephalas to the safety of the Cinque Ports is interrupted by a disastrous engagement in the Channel. The looming shape of a merchantman becalmed in fog presents an almost irresistible allure. But for Harry Ludlow and his battle-weary crew, the pursuit of one last easy prize leads to a desperate fight.
Product Details
Publisher | McBooks Press |
Publish Date | January 01, 2003 |
Pages | 368 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781590130322 |
Dimensions | 8.4 X 5.5 X 1.1 inches | 1.0 pounds |
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.
Reviews
Exciting and unpredictable.
High adventure and detection; cunningly spliced battle scenes which reek of blood and brine; excitements on terra firma to match.
High-speed epic from an ace storyteller.
Outflanking and out-gunning C. S. Forester.
Pure adventure with excitement and daring all the way . . . historical fiction at its very best.
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