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Author: Wilder Perkins, Narrator: Stan Pretty
Playtime: 7 hours
"You're The Admiral's deus-ex machina, then. His Hercules. The man he uses to drag his chestnuts out of the lire. Good record at sea, respectable navy family, no vice. Pity about that, you look as though you were otherwise fit far command. But the fleets loss is the Service's gain. Perhaps." Sir Hugh Abercrombie very neatly sums up Bartholomew Hoare's odd position in King George III's Royal Navy. Because a throat injury suffered in the service of the Crown in the war with France has left Hoare fit to do no more than whisper, he is unable to command a ship. To a man raised in a navy family, this is a tragedy. But Hoare's quick brain and extraordinary perspicacity have so impressed his superiors that he has been entrusted not only with the smallest ship and the oddest crew In the Royal Navy, but with state and military duties of great secrecy. As this book opens, Hoare's wedding to the impressive young...
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