In the king's name

Bolitho adventure from our best-loved navel writer, Douglas Reeman writing as Alexander Kent.

It is January 1819, and Captain Adam Bolitho ships out from Falmouth bound for Freetown, on the old the slave coast of Africa. H.M.S.Onwardcarries sealed orders in the strongbox below deck. But why all the secrecy and apparent urgency? And whyOnward, so soon after the Mediterranean, and that bloody action withNautilus?

On their way back into port having completed their mission, the crew of theOnwardspy the debris of an allied frigate, destroyed as if taken by surprise. Bodies are strewn among the shark-infested waters and no enemy in sight. A single word frozen on the lips of the dead. Mutiny. The men begin to question who is friend and who is foe.

All is not well aboard theOnward; envy and hunger for power consume some of the crew, but they must band together and risk their lives, in the name of the King. A searing and gripping tale of trouble on the high seas, and of the weakness of the human spirit,In the King's Nameheralds the return of our greatest living maritime writer and the legendary Adam Bolitho..

All is not well aboard theOnward; envy and hunger for power consume some of the crew, but they must band together and risk their lives together, in the name of the King. A searing and gripping tale of trouble on the high seas, and of the weakness of the human spirit,In the King's Nameheralds the return of our greatest living maritime writer and the legendary Adam Bolitho.