David Donachie
Blood Will Out (Contraband Shore)
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
A Sea of Troubles
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It is 1794, and Britannia is doing its best to rule the waves to the detriment of Revolutionary France. John Pearce, son of a ...Read Review