Donachie, David, <br/><br/>
A troubled course / 
David Donachie. 
 - 408 pages (large print). 
 - A John Pearce adventure .
 - John Pearce adventure. .
<br/><br/> John Pearce discovers that Madrid plans to desert the British-led coalition and join the enemy. In company with Lord Langholm, he has taken a Spanish treasure ship. But a violent Atlantic westerly forces them into a deep bay, overlooked by Spaniards who have created a trap with cannon on the heights aimed at the narrow entrance. Pearce must take the lead, exposed to plunging fire, lucky the guns do not quite have the range and, having succeeded, he must find a way to get Langholm's frigate and the damaged Santa Leocadia through the same bottleneck. Only quick thinking and an act of sheer inspiration make it possible. His orders take him via Gibraltar, then on Admiral Jervis, who hates him, to warn of Spanish duplicity. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781004106530 (pbk.) : 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Pearce, John (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Seafaring life--History--18th century--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain--History, Naval--18th century--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Sea stories.<br/>Large type books.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.9'14