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A Shot Rolling Ship

A Shot Rolling Ship

A John Pearce Adventure

by David Donachie

Published by: Globe Pequot

Series: John Pearce

Imprint: McBooks Press

Sales Date: 04/01/2022

392 Pages, 6.04 x 9.06 x 0.82 in

Paperback
9781493066278
Published: April 2022

$19.95

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Pressed into King George's navy for the second time in a month, John Pearce finds himself working aboard HMS Griffin, sailing the Channel in search of the numerous French privateers preying on English merchant ships. Pearce, however, has other things on his mind. He must find a way off the ship in order to rescue his ailing father from the dangers of revolutionary Paris. By inciting mutiny, he hopes to escape the ship unnoticed. But travelling to France, John Pearce discovers that his worst fears have become reality. All he can do is return to the Griffin—and exact his revenge.

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.