David Donachie

HMS Hazard (John Pearce, 16)

By David Donachie - Published 2021

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AdventureNautical

In the early summer of 1796, John Pearce commands the 14-gun Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Hazard. She is manned by inexperienced “quota men” ...Read Review

Blood Will Out (Contraband Shore)

By David Donachie - Published 2019

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1787. Deal, Kent coast. Wounded in a failed attempt to rescue his beloved Betsy from a forced marriage, Captain Edward Brazier then disappears. Not ...Read Review

A Close Run Thing

By David Donachie - Published 2019

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AdventureMilitaryNautical

This, the fifteenth of the John Pearce novels, is set in 1796 with Lieutenant Pearce and his companion Samuel Oliphant trying to get back ...Read Review

A Lawless Place (Contraband Shore)

By David Donachie - Published 2018

Genres:

AdventureNautical

The sequel to Donachie’s The Contraband Shore (2017), this novel is set in and around Deal (where the author lives) in 1787. Naval captain ...Read Review

The Contraband Shore

By David Donachie - Published 2017

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AdventureMilitaryNautical

Royal Navy Captain Edward Brazier has reason to be pleased with life, even though he has no ship at present under his command. ...Read Review

On a Particular Service

By David Donachie - Published 2017

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AdventureMilitaryNautical

1796, and Lieutenant John Pearce is headed to England on board a hospital ship, his future uncertain. But first there is a small matter ...Read Review

A Treacherous Coast

By David Donachie - Published 2016

Genres:

AdventureMilitaryNautical

Our hero, John Pearce, is in the tradition of Sharpe and many other 19th-century military heroes: he has risen from the ranks by ...Read Review

The Perils of Command

By David Donachie - Published 2015

Genres:

MilitaryNautical

1794. Lieutenant John Pearce, who is in temporary command of HMS Flirt, due to his captain Henry Digby being wounded, arrives in Brindisi with ...Read Review

The Devil to Pay

By David Donachie - Published 2014

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AdventureNautical

1794. There is no peace for John Pearce, the unorthodox Naval Lieutenant who, after crippling his armed cutter to save his lady-love from Barbary ...Read Review

A Divided Command

By David Donachie - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureNautical

Lieutenant John Pearce – he of the unorthodox career, from illegally pressed seaman to officer – is back for his tenth adventure. With a talent ...Read Review

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