A Private Revenge: #9 A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel

by Richard Woodman

Overview

Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater brings the frigate Patrician to the Pearl River on the China coast and finds himself caught up in bizarre events.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574090789
Publisher:	Sheridan House, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/25/1999
Series:	Nathaniel Drinkwater Novels , #9
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	520,972
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Captain Richard Martin Woodman retired in 1997 from a 37-year nautical career. Woodman's Nathaniel Drinkwater series is often compared to the work of the late Patrick O'Brian. Woodman is the author of some two dozen nautical novels, as well as several nonfiction books. Unlike many other modern naval historical novelists, such as C.S. Forester or O'Brian, he has served afloat. He went to sea at the age of sixteen as an indentured midshipman and spent eleven years in command. His experience ranges from cargo-liners to ocean weather ships and specialist support vessels to yachts, square-riggers, and trawlers. Said Lloyd's List of his work: "As always, Richard Woodman's story is closely based on actual historical events. All this we have come to expect-and he adds that special ambience of colourful credibility which makes his nautical novels such rattling good reads."

Table of Contents

A Private Revenge: Contents PART ONE: THE DAMOCLEAN SWORD The Typhoon 1 The Brig 2 New Orders 3 Whampoa 4 The Dragon's Roar 5 The Matter of Morale 6 The Concerns of a Convoy 7 Morris 8 Fair Winds and Foul Tempers 9 Infirmities of Character 10 A Small Victory 11 Blood and Rain PART TWO: NEMESIS 12 A Council of War 13 A Round Robin 14 The Winds of Fortune 15 The Bronze-bound Chests 16 Blow-pipe Creek 17 The Gates of the Fortress 18 Pursuit PART THREE: A PRIVATE REVENGE 19 The Tripod 20 A Forlorn Hope 21 A Private Revenge 22 Penang Author's Note

Editorial Reviews

Woodman knows his ships and the sea and is a craftsman of great ability.

Guernsey Evening Press

Packed with exciting incident worthy of wide appeal to those who love thrilling nautical encounters and the sea.

Nautical Magazine

Action to the bone, no romantic bilge-water.

Observer

There is no doubt that Nathaniel Drinkwater rates up there with the best of the nautical world.

Midwest Book Review

.. . for all who like to read about naval action in the 19th century, told with gusto and bravura.

Publishing News

Brilliantly told. .. the characters are real and lively, the language similar; but above all it is a convincing and compulsive seafaring story.

Oxford Times

In the aftermath of a typhoon, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater brings the HMS frigate PATRICIAN into the shelter of the Pearl River in China, to refit. He is unwittingly entangled in the bizarre events that followed the British occupation of Macao and the attack on the Canton. Well written and exciting.

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