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"* 'I was soon turning over the pages almost indecently fast... Roll on, the promised adventures of Kydd and Renzi.' - Independent * 'The vantage point of the common sailor gives the nautical novel a fresh twist. In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world.' - Guardian * 'Stockwin paints a vivid picture of life aboard the mighty ship-of-the-line... the harsh naval discipline, the rancid food, and the skill of the common sailor are all skilfully evoked.' - Daily Express"
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Thomas Paine Kydd is in Halifax enjoying the recognition and favour of his fellow officers when Tenacious is summoned to join Horatio Nelson's taskforce on an urgent reconnaissance mission. Intelligence suggests the French Revolution is about to set the Mediterranean ablaze, but Bonaparte's fleet is nowhere to be found. Nelson and his 'Band of Brothers' begin a desperate search for him.Kydd's newfound ambition fuels his desire to be at the forefront of the hunt. But with power comes responsibility; with responsibility, accountability. Kydd will face his greatest challenge ever amidst bloodstained seas. And defeat will mean humiliation -- or death.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Tenacious,
By Robert Squarebriggs "modelshipwright and ex-s... (Miramichi, NB, Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Tenacious (Hardcover)
I finished reading TENACIOUS and must profess, I believe it to be Stockwin's best effort yet! The action sequences at the Nile are masterful, gripping and told me more about the Battle of the Nile than I ever knew before. I have read many accounts, but never with such clarity and strength and power. The cast of characters in the series, grow with each book and Stockwin draws in some of my favorites from history and makes them fit so naturally into the story, Stockwin keeps them accurate to their character and personality.I love the small details he includes, such as: the sword Kydd has made and the inclusion of the birds on the engraving of the blade and how he came by the gold to purchase it. His opening dinner in Halifax, including some of my own favorite dishes, is a prime example. Stockwin captures all of the confusion, danger and excitement of locating the French fleet in the Med., the storm and the battle to survive it and repair the fleet all based on actual events, helps build excitement and suspense. I was very surprised with the side adventure to Acre and the seige. Sir Sydney Smith is a character from history, who's real life reads like a Hollywood script, and his inclusion is masterful and works so well. He never really recieved the attention in history or nautical fiction, that he was due. I believe TENACIOUS will be the most successful in the series yet, taking nothing away from KYDD, SEAFLOWER, ARTEMIS, MUTINY AND QUARTERDECK....just it's a story very well written and very well told!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tenacious,
By Robert Squarebriggs "modelshipwright and ex-s... (Miramichi, NB, Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: TENACIOUS (Paperback)
I finished reading TENACIOUS and must profess, I believe it to be Stockwin's best effort yet! The action sequences at the Nile are masterful, gripping and told me more about the Battle of the Nile than I ever knew before. I have read many accounts, but never with such clarity and strength and power.The cast of characters in the series, grow with each book and Stockwin draws in some of my favorites from history, and makes them fit so naturally into the story, Stockwin keep them accurate to their character and personality. I love the small details he includes, such as: the sword Kydd has made and the inclusion of the birds on the engraving of the blade and how he came by the gold to purchase it. His opening dinner in Halifax, including some of my own favorite dishes, is a prime example. Stockwin captures all of the confusion, danger and excitement of locating the French fleet in the Med., the storm and the battle to survive it and repair the fleet all on based on actual events, helps build excitement and suspense. I was very surprised with the side adventure to Acre and the seige. Sir Sydney Smith is a character from history, who's real life reads like a Hollywood script, and his inclusion is masterful and works so well. He never really recieved the attention in history or nautical fiction, that he was due. I believe TENACIOUS will be the most successful in the series yet, taking nothing away from KYDD, SEAFLOWER, ARTEMIS, MUTINY or QUARTERDECK.....just it's a story very well written and very well told!
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4.1 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another Great Kydd Novel,
By A. Courie "Treb" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tenacious: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Hardcover)
"Tenacious" is the sixth, and best so far, book in Julian Stockwin's "Kydd" series. These books are set in the Napoleonic-era Royal Navy and follow in the same vein as C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin books.In "Tenacious," Lieutenant Kydd is posted aboard the 64-gun Tenacious. Kydd sees action at the Battle of the Nile (where he meets Horatio Nelson and is inspired in his career by that great leader), the retaking of Minorca, and the Siege of Acre. Kydd, who began his career as a pressed seaman, is now a confident leader and officer in the Royal Navy - and more importantly, an inspired fighter. Although this genre was obviously inspired by C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian, the Kydd novels remind me more of Bernard Cornwell's "Sharpe" series of books. Richard Sharpe started as a private in the British Army and ended up an officer, just as Kydd started as a pressed seaman and eventually walked the quarterdeck as an officer. But more than that, Kydd's adventures, and Stockwin's use of some dramatic license to involve Kydd in almost every major military engagement of the time (whether at land or at sea), are more in the style of the Sharpe books than the older Hornblower or Aubrey-Maturin books. Stockwin can tell great sea tales about Thomas Kydd, and this book is a must-read for anyone who enjoys military historical fiction or the Napoleonic era. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Kydd improves as Stockwyn does.,
By C. C. Southerland "Dorsalis" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tenacious: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Hardcover)
The earlier Kydd sagas took a bit of fortitude to get through. Clearly, Stockwyn was so invested on seamanship, he did not seem as committed to spinng a page turning yarn. However, as time has gone on, Stockwyn and his hero, Kydd have improved. In this most recent novel, Stockwyn takes us into the presence of Lord Horatio Nelson, through the eyes of Thomas Kydd. It is a fascinating and compelling experience. The story is well told and of course endowed with the qualities of seamanship and historical perspective, which have made Julian Stockwyn a real master of this genre.One feels the surge of rising along with Kydd, through the clumsy early novels, much like Kydd's clumsy growth before the mast. Now that he has become an officer, there is a greater sophistication to the plots and storylines, which truly make the reader feel the saga as a matter of personal experience. Bravo Julian Stockwyn for germinating, tending and growing the fascinating, engaging Thomas Kydd!
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Onward and upward!,
By Michael K. Smith - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tenacious: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Hardcover)
It's 1798 and Thomas Paine Kydd, a wigmaker pressed into the Royal Navy only five years before and now junior lieutenant of an aging but still serviceable sixty-four, returns with his ship from Nova Scotia on the news that Gen. Buonaparte is readying an invasion of Britain. Of immediate concern, though, is the probable actions of the French fleet at Toulon. Britain was evicted from the Mediterranean awhile back and the French, with full freedom of movement now, could head east for the Levant or Constantinople (which would open up access to India), or west, to round Gibraltar, pick up the Spanish fleet at Cadiz and the rest of the French ships at Brest, where they would be well placed to act as backup in the invasion. Tom continues learning to be an effective officer, ordering and leading his division of the crew and looking after a promising young midshipman, and looking for opportunities to be noticed. Because he has discovered ambition and is set now on attaining his own command. But in many ways, the focus of this sixth volume in the series is Horatio, Lord Nelson, a junior admiral with a skyrocketing reputation and now detached to the Med in his first independent fleet command. The author does an excellent job of detailing the long chase from Toulon to Egypt to Malta to Sicily and back again to Alexandria as Nelson's small fleet searches for the elusive French. The culmination, of course, is the Battle of the Nile, where Buonaparte navy is not just defeated by the British but nearly annihilated, leaving the general and his army stranded in the desert. Everyone has heard of Nelson at Trafalgar but Stockwin is correct in regarding the Nile as the greater and far more influential victory, and his depiction of the action is extremely good -- especially the enormous explosion of L'ORIENT. The latter part of the story sees Kydd seconded ashore at Acre, where he becomes right-hand man to Sir Sydney Smith in the delaying siege that caused Buonaparte to abandon his army and sent him scurrying back to Paris. And Tom's close friend, Renzi, who is far more than he seems to most other people, is called back to the family estate in England, where he finally resolves his own dilemma. In a way, the series is falling more and more into line with previous Napoleonic-era naval series, now that Kydd is a quarterdeck officer, but the author -- whose grasp of his subject and the period has never been less than first-rate -- also seems to have hit his stride as a storyteller. This is perhaps the best in the series so far.
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