A Hanging Matter

by David Donachie

Overview

It wasn't quite the homecoming ex-privateer Harry Ludlow had anticipated. Having cheated death and made a handsome profit into the bargain, Harry and his brother James expected their return home to be quiet - until they become embroiled in a fierce contest between smugglers in the English Channel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749019174
Publisher:	Allison & Busby, Limited
Publication date:	12/17/2015
Series:	Privateersman , #3
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	470
Sales rank:	720,691
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Born in Edinburgh in 1944, David Donachie has had a variety of jobs, including selling everything from business machines to soap. He has always had an abiding interest in the naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author of a number of bestselling books, he now lives in Deal, Kent with his wife, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook and their two children.

Editorial Reviews

High-speed epic from an ace storyteller.

Daily Sport

Exciting and unpredictable.

The Bookbag

Pure adventure with excitement and daring all the way. .. historical fiction at its very best.

Historical Novels Review Online

High adventure and detection; cunningly spliced battle scenes which reek of blood and brine; excitements on terra firma to match.

Literary Review

Outflanking and out-gunning C. S. Forester.

Cambridge Evening News

"A must for armchair mariners . . . it's superb stuff."  —Manchester Evening News



"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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