A Private Revenge: #9 A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel (Volume 9) (Nathaniel Drinkwater Novels, 9) - Softcover

Woodman, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157409078X ISBN 13: 9781574090789

Publisher: Sheridan House, 1999

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author:

Captain Richard Martin Woodman retired in 1997 from a 37-year nautical caree. Woodman's Nathaniel Drinkwater e series is often compared to the work of the late Patrick O'Brian. 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 has spent eleven years in command. His experience ranges from cargo-liners to ocean weather ships and specialist support vessels as well as 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."

From AudioFile:

Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater faces a passenger's long-nursed grudge as he deals with Russian prisoners and pirates on what should have been a routine convoy mission to Penang. Sabotage, however, sends PATRICIAN far from its course, endangering the convoy. Richard Woodman's novel, the ninth in the series, is heavy on the inner workings of the minds of Drinkwater and his rival. Joe Dunlop excels at voicing the conflicting thoughts of the two men, letting emotions and tensions drive the story and revealing the characters' motivations clearly. As the scene shifts to a climactic battle and a tragic, violent ending, Dunlop deftly combines the internal monologues and external action. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Sheridan House
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 157409078X
• ISBN 13: 9781574090789
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256