A King's Cutter - Softcover

Woodman, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446604623 ISBN 13: 9780446604628

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1997

Synopsis

In a novel based on the real life adventures of Lieutenant Nathaniel Drinkwater, the dashing Royal Navy officer encounters deceit, rebellion, and sabotage on board the Kestrel, a ship slowly careening out of control, in a suspenseful saga detailing life on the rough and stormy sea. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

As a professional sailor, Richard Woodman has progressed from apprentice to captain in a variety of ships. Along with the Drinkwater series, he has written nautical fiction about tea-clippers and cargo liners and is a member of the Society for Nautical Research. Woodman lives in England, and is considered one of the strongest voices in nautical fiction today.

Review:

Nautical novelist Richard Woodman arrives in New World ports with the first three of 14 installments in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series, previously released in the U.K. between 1981 and 1983 and compared by critics there to C. S. Forester's Hornblower saga. Part of the Mariner's Library Fiction Classics, An Eye of the Fleet, A King's Cutter and A Brig of War are set in the late 18th Century and find hero Drinkwater caught up in revolutions on both sides of the Atlantic. Those looking for high seas action and historical intrigue are in luck but these are strictly for devotees of the genre. (Publishers Weekly)

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0446604623
• ISBN 13: 9780446604628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224