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THE GLORIOUS FIRST: The first fleet action of the French Revolutionary War
The second in the Jack Vizzard adventures following from First Fleet.
War with Revolutionary France takes Lieutenant Vizzard to the coasts of France. He is to escort a government agent known to carry valuable intelligence of vital importance to Prime Minister Pitt's government. Captured by a traitor he must escape France. Can he trust the beautiful Frenchwoman who befriends him?
His work leads directly to the first fleet action of the Revolutionary War with France and to the battle known in Britain as The Glorious First of June where heroes and cowards will die together.
War with Revolutionary France takes Lieutenant Vizzard to the coasts of France. He is to escort a government agent known to carry valuable intelligence of vital importance to Prime Minister Pitt's government. Captured by a traitor he must escape France. Can he trust the beautiful Frenchwoman who befriends him?
His work leads directly to the first fleet action of the Revolutionary War with France and to the battle known in Britain as The Glorious First of June where heroes and cowards will die together.
479 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 13, 2014
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November 30, 2014
I very much enjoyed this well-written adventure, the second featuring Morgan's protagonist Lieutenant Jack Vizzard. Some time after returning from Australia, Vizzard finds himself tasked with locating a British spy in France and returning him to British soil. It is 1793 and Britain and France are now at war: the stakes are particularly high, as the spy in question has information the British government will stop at nothing to acquire.
Through a complex series of events, tensely narrated and well-plotted, Vizzard finds himself present at the first battle during the wars with revolutionary France: the "Glorious First of June". It is at this stage of the novel that Morgan's prose truly comes into its own, and some phrases (the one comparing the ships of Lord Howe's navy to "canvas cathedrals" in particular) are truly beautiful. Morgan pulls no punches in his depiction of the bloodiness of close-quarters battle, and I devoured this second half of the book in pretty much one sitting.
I very much recommend this book, and will be looking out for the third in the series.
Through a complex series of events, tensely narrated and well-plotted, Vizzard finds himself present at the first battle during the wars with revolutionary France: the "Glorious First of June". It is at this stage of the novel that Morgan's prose truly comes into its own, and some phrases (the one comparing the ships of Lord Howe's navy to "canvas cathedrals" in particular) are truly beautiful. Morgan pulls no punches in his depiction of the bloodiness of close-quarters battle, and I devoured this second half of the book in pretty much one sitting.
I very much recommend this book, and will be looking out for the third in the series.
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