Honour This Day

<p><b><i>If you like Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester, you will love this all-guns-blazing naval page-turner from <u>multi-million copy seller Alexander Kent</u> - guaranteed to have you hooked from page one!</i></b><br><br><b>'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction' -- </b><b><i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><b>'Shipwreck, survival ... a spirited battle ... a splendid yarn' -- </b><b><i>The Times</i></b><br><b>'Gripping to the end' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Difficult to put down' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Superb' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Riveting' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Exceptionally well written' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'What a story!' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><br><b>***********************************************************************************************</b><br><br><b>1804</b>: <b>England</b> stands alone against <b>France</b> and the fleets of <b>Spain</b>, expecting an invasion any day. Entrusted with an urgent mission for the King, <b>Vice-Admiral Richard Bolitho</b> hoists his flag above the veteran seventy-four-gun ship <b>Hyperion</b> and sets sail with a new squadron for the <b>Caribbean</b>.<br><br>Plagued by the knowledge that both his troubled marriage and the eye injured in his last battle with <b>Contre-Amiral Jobert</b> are worsening, Bolitho is eager to leave England less than three months after his return home. But even his beloved old ship Hyperion, hastily restored from an ignominious existence as a hulk, is full of tormenting memories and lost faces.<br><br>Having navigated several battles along the way, he is roused in Antigua from his darkness of soul by the rediscovery of a passion which defies convention and every risk to his reputation.<br><br><b>His future is full of uncertainty as he sails east to Gibraltar, for a rendezvous that all who follow his flag will remember...</b></p>