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.
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"A must for armchair mariners. . . . It's superb stuff."-- "Manchester Evening News" "Battle scenes which reek of blood and brine; excitements on terra firma to match . . ."-- "Literary Review" "High adventure and detection cunningly spliced."-- "Times of London Literary Review" (Praise for David Donachie's other books) "Exciting and unpredictable."-- "The Bookbag"