Review
"Donachie has made Ludlow the most compulsively readable amateur detective since Dick Francis' latest ex-jockey." -- Cambridge Evening News
"High adventure and detection cunningly spliced. Battle scenes which reek of blood and brine; excitements on terra firma to match. . . ." -- The Times Literary Review
"High adventure and detection cunningly spliced. Battle scenes which reek of blood and brine; excitements on terra firma to match. . . ." -- The Times Literary Review
About the Author
David Donachie is an avowed lover of naval fiction with a stroke of mischief, and he has lately published a multivolume biographical novel about Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton. Writing as Tom Connery, he is the author of the popular Markham of the Marines novels. A Scot by birth, he lives in Deal on the Channel coast of England.
