Christopher Nicole, Author Severn House Publishers $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-0953-7
Fighting Harry McGann, in this first novel in a naval-adventures series, plays a pivotal role in the development of the U.S. Navy. Forced to flee from Ireland, where he flourished as a privateer against English shipping, Harry eventually arrives in...
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Christopher Nicole, Author Severn House Publishers $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-1084-7
Though it shifts scenes and points of view, this fifth novel (Man on Fire, etc.) by the pseudonymous Quinnell is effective because its animating motivation is credible. Jason Peabody, a seasoned but rigid State Department expert, is posted as...
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Christopher Nicole, Author Severn House Publishers $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-1444-9
In this well-researched but essentially uninvolving third book in the seafaring McGann family saga ( Old Glory , The Sea and the Sand ), Lt. Rod Bascom is cashiered out of the Royal Navy after he loses his ship going to Jerry McGann's rescue while...
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Christopher Nicole, Author Severn House Publishers $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-1350-3
Nicole takes intriguing elementshigh-sea battles, a harem in exotic Tripoli, a star-crossed romanceand blends them into an exciting story set in the early decades of the 1800s. U.S. naval officer Toby McGann falls deeply in love with a charming...
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Christopher Nicole, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-312-03418-4
The latest historical adventures from Nicole ( Sunset ) neatly summarizes international politics from 1895 to 1914, and if that occasionally slows the narrative it's a nice, easy-listening kind of history lesson. Murdoch Mackinder, scion of a great...
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