TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donachie,David
TI  - The perils of command
T2  - John Pearce series
SN  - 9780749018221
U1  - 823.914 23
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Royal Navy
KW  - History
KW  - Fiction
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Pearce, John (Fictitious character)
KW  - Seafaring life
KW  - History, Naval
KW  - Sea stories
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - John Pearce has to fight on many fronts. First against his pious, now pregnant lover Emily, then her cruel husband Ralph Barclay. He must take on and defeat Admiral Hotham while that officers seek to beat the French and fails twice though a lack of gallantry to press home his advantage. Sea battles, emotional turmoil and downright chicanery mix in a stew of blood and scheming until Pearce discovers two facts that should change his life. But is what is being proposed fit for a man now accustomed to war, a man for whom gallantry is the stuff of life?
ER  -