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“High adventure and detection cunningly spliced.” * Times of London Literary Review * “With vivid and accurate shipboard action, storm havoc and battle scenes, Donachie has made Ludlow the most compulsively readable amateur detective since Dick Francis’ latest ex-jockey."" * Cambridge Evening News * “Skullduggery . . . rousing battles. Authenticity guaranteed: taste the salt and smell the powder. Donachie sails on without a rival in sight.” * Times 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 * (Praise for David Donachie's other books) “High-speed epic from an ace storyteller.” * Daily Sport * (Praise for David Donachie's other books) “Exciting and unpredictable.” * The Bookbag *

(Praise for David Donachie's other books) ""Exciting and unpredictable."" -- ""The Bookbag"" ""High adventure and detection cunningly spliced."" -- ""Times of London Literary Review"" ""Skullduggery . . . rousing battles. Authenticity guaranteed: taste the salt and smell the powder. Donachie sails on without a rival in sight."" -- ""Times Literary Review"" ""With vivid and accurate shipboard action, storm havoc and battle scenes, Donachie has made Ludlow the most compulsively readable amateur detective since Dick Francis' latest ex-jockey."" -- ""Cambridge Evening News""

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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.

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