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Charles Hayden novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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His career challenged by a mixed heritage in spite of his loyalty to the king of England, French Revolution-era naval officer Charles Saunders Hayden finds himself aboard an aging frigate that becomes subject to violent crew outbursts and mutiny.
Author
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Charles Hayden novel volume 01
Language
English
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A novel of maritime mutiny set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. At the time of the French Revolution, one of Britain's most skillful naval officers, Charles Saunders Hayden, is a young lieutenant, the son of an English father and a French mother. His abilities and his loyalty to the king of England are beyond dispute, yet his career seems doomed by his "mixed" heritage and lack of political connections. Consequently, Hayden is assigned...
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English
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1794 and the height of the French Revolution: Charles Hayden sets off aboard the ill-fated HMS Themis with orders to destroy a French frigate sailing from Le Havre and to gather intelligence from a royalist spy. When he discovers plans for an imminent invasion of England, Charles seeks to return and give warning before it's too late. But the enemy has been lying in wait for him, and after a chase into the Atlantic and the clutches of a French squadron,...
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