Richard Woodman, Author Walker & Company $15.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-8027-0886-1
Although there's some good sea action in Woodman's (Keepers of the Sea new adventure, the chief attraction is the vivid depiction of the politics of Europe and the Royal Navy in Lord Nelson's day. In 1800, Lieut. Nathaniel Drinkwater wangles a...
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Richard Woodman, Author Walker & Company $16.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-8027-0993-6
The Royal Navy spent most of 1805-06 on tedious blockade duty against a French invasion threat. Woodman portrays that tedium rather too well, despite his crackling authenticity. Frigate captain Nathaniel Drinkwater (Arctic Treachery) and his crew...
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Richard Woodman, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-02586-1
Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater, R.N., now seems to be repeating events in his life. In 1807, he's once again sent on a semisecret mission by spymaster Lord Dungarth ( A Baltic Mission ), is tempted by a foreign beauty ( A Brig of War ) and is captured
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Richard Woodman, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-312-04405-3
The ninth adventure of Capt. Nathaniel Drinkwater--but only the second ( In Distant Waters ) published here--places the middle-aged, phlegmatic skipper of H.M. frigate Patrician in the South China Sea in 1808 under secret Admiralty orders to thwart...
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Richard Woodman, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0855-0
From the first British involvement in the French Revolution in 1793 to the end of the War of 1812, England's wooden walls fought off French, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, Turkish and American ships to maintain control of the seas and Britain's...
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Richard Woodman. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8078-9
After more than 30 books, British author Woodman begins a new series of historical novels set during the English civil war in the 17th century. This clever swashbuckler, spanning 27 years, chronicles the adventures of a starving orphan turned...
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