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21 Books by Alexander Kent : The Richard Bolitho Series - Midshipman Bolitho, Stand in Danger, In Gallant Company, Sloop of War, To Glory We Steer, Command a King's Ship, Passage to Mutiny, With All Dispatch, Form Line of Battle! + 12 More (The Richard &
This one opens the new cycle in the Bolitho's adventures. We find Richard without a ship in a time of peace right after the end of the Revolutionary war. Kent is very good with describing the situation the sailors and soldiers find themselves in. Poverty, rejection, most of them hurt beyond reason physically and mentally. Bolitho is given the command of the Undine to sail to the Pacific and help establish a commercial port in Borneo. Bolitho must sail thru new waters and thru political intrigues during a time when war is over but it embers still hot and where the smallest sparks can make it rage again. I especially liked the way Kent writes the way Bolitho handles command and the friendships he has with his crew and officer. It's a solid opening to the new series of adventures in the Pacific.
