TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donachie,David
TI  - A troubled course
T2  - A John Pearce adventure
SN  - 9781004106530 (pbk.) :
U1  - 823.9'14 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Rearsby
PB  - Clipper Large Print Books
KW  - Pearce, John
KW  - Seafaring life
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History, Naval
KW  - Sea stories
KW  - Large type books
N2  - 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
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