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Tenacious

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Praise for Quarterdeck

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Lieutenant Thomas Kydd takes his

shortcomings . . . Stockwin, a career navy man,
rightful place upon the quarterdeck,
writes of the nautical life with vivid authority."

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but the decisions he must make will

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part of a small squadron commanded by

author of the Alan Lewrie series

Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson. Its mission Julian Stockwin was sent at the age of fourteen to TS
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is to scour the Mediterranean and locate training school. He joined the British Navy

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Napoleon and his army. Kydd's newly

fi red ambition leads him to volunteer for at fi fteen, transferred to the Australian
heroism . . . a very highly recommended novel . . ."

shore service with the British army in the Navy when his family emigrated there, and

—The Midwest Book Review

capture of Minorca. Later, he faces the saw active service in Vietnam. He became great ships-of-the-line at the Battle of the a teacher and an educational psychologist.

Nile as the British take on the French in Later he was commissioned into the Royal a no-holds-barred struggle for supremacy Naval Reserve and was awarded the MBE.

Retired from the RNR with the rank of

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in southern waters. But there is one more Lieutenant Commander, he now lives in

Devon, England. Visit him on the web at
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test to come: the siege of Acre, where Kydd and a handful of British seamen

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under the command of Sir Sidney Smith

face an army of thirteen thousand!

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Cover painting by Geoff Hunt. Cover design by Panda Musgrove.

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Praise for Quarterdeck

T

$24.00

"Continuing the rousing adventures of Thomas
A

en
Ky

Kydd . . . as he battles ships at sea, snobbery at
d

home and the sense that he has serious personal
d

Lieutenant Thomas Kydd takes his

shortcomings . . . Stockwin, a career navy man,
rightful place upon the quarterdeck,
writes of the nautical life with vivid authority."

Tenacious
S

a
ea Ad
c

but the decisions he must make will

—Kirkus Reviews

i
A Kydd Sea Adventure

test him to the limit!

ve

oi
n

"A rousingly exciting and delicious full-immersion
t

u

The sixth book in the Kydd series

u

in the perils of seafaring and society during the
r

fi nds Thomas Kydd aboard
Tenacious
, e

s

great Age of Sail!"

—Dewey Lambdin,

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