The Dying Trade

by David Donachie

Overview

1794: Arriving in the squalid, seething port of Genoa, Harry Ludlow and his partner and younger brother, James, find it a tinderbox of tension, fed by the discovery of a hanged British sea captain and packs of English and French sailors at each other's throats.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590130063
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2001
Series:	The Privateersman Mysteries , #2
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.15(d)

About the Author

David Donachie (1944–2023) was born in Edinburgh. He always had an abiding interest in military history, including ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, the British navy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the clandestine services during the Second World War. He had more than fifty published novels to his credit, with over a million combined sales. David lived in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea.

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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