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Authors: David Donachie

 
 

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D
AVID
D
ONACHIE
was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an abiding interest in the naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as the Roman Republic, and, under the pen-name of Jack Ludlow, has published a number of historical adventure novels. David lives in Deal with his partner, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook.

T
HE
J
OHN
P
EARCE SERIES

By the Mast Divided • A Shot Rolling Ship

An Awkward Commission • A Flag of Truce

The Admirals’ Game • An Ill Wind

Blown Off Course • Enemies at Every Turn

A Sea of Troubles • A Divided Command

The Devil to Pay

 

Written as Jack Ludlow

T
HE
L
AST
R
OMAN
S
ERIES

Vengeance

Honour

T
HE
R
EPUBLIC SERIES

The Pillars of Rome

The Sword of Revenge

The Gods of War

T
HE
C
ONQUEST SERIES

Mercenaries

Warriors

Conquest

T
HE
R
OADS TO
W
AR SERIES

The Burning Sky

A Broken Land

A Bitter Field

T
HE
C
RUSADES SERIES

Son of Blood

Soldier of Crusade

Prince of Legend

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First published in 2014. 
This ebook edition first published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby in 2014.

Copyright © 2014 by D
AVID
D
ONACHIE

All characters and events in this publication, 
other than those clearly in the public domain, 
are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, 
living or dead, is purely coincidental.

The moral right of the author is hereby asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent buyer.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978–0–7490–1658–6

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