David Donachie was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He has 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 has more than fifty published novels to his credit, with over a million combined sales. David lives in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea.
Description
"A Troubled Course is a brilliant late-eighteenth-century British naval adventure full of political intrigue, action, and betrayal. With richly detailed characters and dialog, David Donachie gives the reader a window into the early Napoleonic naval wars. The period-correct dialog cast against historical events makes this book a delight for historical fiction enthusiasts. With combatants and rogues seemingly at every turn, A Troubled Course, the seventeenth offering in the John Pearce saga, is sure to excite even the casual reader." * Quarterdeck *