Julian Stockwin, Author . Scribner $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1458-2
Thomas Paine Kydd. Arrr, matey, there's a name to hang a man for sure. In this delightful first installment in a new series in the tradition of Patrick O'Brian, Kydd is a bright lad pressed into the service of his majesty (Farmer George, the
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Julian Stockwin, Author . Scribner $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1460-5
A young sailor battles foes on sea and land in this second entry in Stockwin's 19th-century naval series. When we last left young Thomas Kydd, he had distinguished himself in battle aboard the Duke William
(Kydd, 2001). Now, Kydd and fellow...
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Julian Stockwin, Author . Scribner $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1462-9
The latest installment of this rousing naval adventure series set during the Napoleonic wars finds stalwart British seaman Thomas Kydd and his comrade, slumming aristocrat-philosophe
Nicholas Renzi, ping-ponging around the Caribbean as Britain and...
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Julian Stockwin, Author . McBooks $24 (318p) ISBN 978-1-59013-165-7
Readers unfamiliar with the previous eight books in the Kydd series (The Admiral's Daughter
, etc.) may find themselves lost at sea with the plot and setting of Stockwin's underwhelming latest addition. After the death of Cmdr. Thomas Kydd&
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Julian Stockwin, Author . McBooks $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59013-237-1
Stockwin's by-the-numbers 10th Kydd sea adventure opens as commander Thomas Kydd reclaims the helm of his sloop-of-war, Teazer
, bringing along old friend and confidant Nicholas Renzi. Kydd, a former “rakish corsair,” is assigned to
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Julian Stockwin, McBooks (IPG, dist.), $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59013-508-2
The sails are mostly slack in Stockwin's latest Thomas Kydd sea adventure. It's 1805, and as the British prepare for Napoleon's expected invasion of England, Kydd, a rising star in the Royal Navy, is given command of a frigate and ordered to join...
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Julian Stockwin. McBooks (IPG, dist.), $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59013-626-3
Stockwin’s 12th book in his Napoleonic naval warfare series is a great improvement over Victory, his previous entry. Stockwin assembles an exciting and suspenseful historical loaded with action, intrigue, treachery, and the bloody gore of 1805...
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Julian Stockwin.. McBooks (IPG, dist.), $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59013-655-3
Stockwin's 13th novel of Napoleonic naval warfare featuring the redoubtable Captain Thomas Kydd of the Royal Navy features more high-seas adventure, ocean battles, bloody melees, and general villainy. After capturing the Cape Colony in South Africa...
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