Fans of Patrick O'’Brian's seafaring novels should welcome the appearance of Seth Hunter's Captain Nathan Peake of the Royal Navy-- a hybrid of Jack Aubrey and The Scarlet Pimpernel. In a trilogy of maritime adventures (The Time of Terror (2010); The Tide of War (2010); The Price of Glory (2011)) set during the French Revolution, Peake experiences numerous adventures and manages to meet many of the era's outstanding personalities while searching for his beloved Sara, a fugitive from the guillotine’s blade. Whether roaming the streets of revolutionary Paris or sailing the seas of the Old World or the New, Captain Peake is a clever and resilient hero, whose missions are often covert, but always romantic.
Bill McCully, Administration
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