{"product_id":"a-troubled-course-a-john-pearce-adventure-hardcover","title":"A Troubled Course: A John Pearce Adventure - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Donachie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe seventeenth volume in the popular John Pearce Adventures set on the high seas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Pearce discovers that Madrid plans to desert the British-led coalition and join the enemy. In company with Lord Langholm, he has taken a Spanish treasure ship. But a violent Atlantic westerly forces them into a deep bay overlooked by Spaniards, who have created a trap with cannon on the heights aimed at the narrow entrance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePearce must take the lead, exposed to plunging fire, lucky the guns do not quite have the range. Then, having succeeded, he must get Langholm's frigate and the damaged \u003ci\u003eSanta Leocadia\u003c\/i\u003e through the same bottleneck. Only quick thinking and an act of sheer inspiration make it possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis orders take him via Gibraltar, then on to Admiral Jervis, who hates him, to warn of Spanish duplicity. Finally, Jervis sends him to Bastia in Corsica, where the Viceroy, Sir Gilbert Elliot, is seeking to hold the island for Britannia in the face of Napoleon's successes in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn night actions, outnumbered on land and sea, Pearce must fight the Francophile Corsicans, who are arming themselves for an insurrection. Will he succeed, or will he, HMS \u003ci\u003eHazard\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Pelicans pay the ultimate price of failure?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Donachie\u003c\/b\u003e (1944-2023) was born in Edinburgh. He always had an abiding interest in military history, including ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, the British navy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the clandestine services during the Second World War. He had more than fifty published novels to his credit, with over a million combined sales. David lived in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766618259744,"sku":"9781493068883","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/33ad881b88eac8bb76ed253697179315.webp?v=1780295620","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-troubled-course-a-john-pearce-adventure-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}