The Devil's Own Luck (41 page)
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Authors: David Donachie
“What about you, Pender? Do you want to go home?”
“I’d rather not, your honour.”
“Why not?” said Harry, teasing him.
“Why, your honour,” he said, his eyes and teeth flashing. “In case there be somebody like you after me at home. I wouldn’t fancy that at all.”
DAVID DONACHIE
is an avowed lover of naval fiction with a streak of mischief. A best-selling author well-known to European audiences, Donachie—as Tom Connery—is the author of the popular
George Markham of the Marines
novels, also set during the Napoleonic Wars and telling the land and sea adventures of His Majesty’s Royal Marines. Under his own name, Donachie is the author of The Nelson and Emma Trilogy, a dual biography of Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton.
A Scot by birth, he lives in Deal on the Channel coast of England, where he works to keep his inspirations in motion.
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