Donland Unfavorable Odds by Perry Comer (.ePUB)
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Donland Unfavorable Odds by Perry Comer
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Overview: Twelve thousand men. One dark coast. Four ships to stop them.
Commodore Isaac Donland has a broad pendant, a battered sixty-four, and a squadron too short of hands to fight two battles in a week. Off the coast of Brittany, his mission to choke the supply line to Lorient has already cost him good men. Then the Admiralty’s intelligence proves wrong, and a packet ship arrives with a passenger who is worse news than any gale.
Captain Nathaniel Kerridge is an army intelligence officer, sick from six days at sea and unimpressed by everything about the Navy. His orders are simple and dangerous. Donland is to land him and six soldiers on the French coast, count the force gathering there, and learn where it is bound. The safety of the party ranks second only to the safety of the ships.
Ashore, Kerridge finds a country full of soldiers, chalked doors, and bread ovens burning through the night. At sea, Donland finds that someone in London wanted him looking the wrong way. As the squadron watches for a lantern that may never show, two services that distrust each other must learn to trust, and fast.
The answer lies in a dead agent’s ledger. The clock runs down to the new moon. Two sea battles, one desperate rescue, and a dawn attack against overwhelming odds will decide whether an invasion sails.
Meanwhile, at home, a captain’s young daughter has written to his youngest lieutenant, and Donland has yet to say what he thinks of it.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Historical Fiction
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