The Dying Trade

by David Donachie

Overview

Part naval swashbuckler, part mystery story, "The Dying Trade" tells the story of smuggling and death in the Mediterranean at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Harry Ludlow and his brother James find themselves in Genoa where Harry is commissioned to investigate a British officer's death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749019129
Publisher:	Allison & Busby, Limited
Publication date:	12/17/2015
Series:	Privateersman , #2
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	449
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

Exciting and unpredictable.

The Bookbag

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

Historical Novels Review Online

Outflanking and out-gunning C. S. Forester.

Cambridge Evening News

High-speed epic from an ace storyteller.

Daily Sport

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

Literary Review

"Not content to outflank and outgun C. S. Forester with his 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."  —Cambrige Evening News



"High adventure and detection cunningly spliced."  —Times of London Literary Review



"Skullduggery . . . rousing battles. Authenticity guaranteed: taste the salt and smell the powder. Donachie sails on without a rival in sight."  —Times Literary Review

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