Badge of Glory
The first novel in the Blackwood series. Captain Philip Blackwood rejoins his ship, HMS Audacious in August 1850. It is peacetime the worlds mightiest navy has settled into a routine of tradition and ceremonial. But the Blackwood receives orders to sail to West Africa and stamp out the remaining stongholds of slavery. Blackwood is also made to realize that there is more to leading his men than holding frim in the line of battle. Love, hate, ambition and envy are forces which he must also confront.
Douglas Reeman
Hardcover with d/w 366pp. Hutchinson 2007
Fine/Fine