Summary
A classic of naval fiction from ‘the master of the modern sea story’.
HMS Wagtail is a river gunboat, a ship seemingly at the end of her useful life, lying in a Hong Kong dockyard awaiting her last summons to the breakers’ yard. Commander Justin Rolfe is also seemingly at the end of his useful naval life, an embittered man, brooding and angry from a court-martial verdict.
Then the offshore island of Santu is threatened with invasion from the Chinese mainland. The small British…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099070603 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009907060X |
| Author: | Douglas Reeman |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 21 April 1993 |
| Weight: | 139g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 110mm x 178mm |
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Douglas Reeman
Douglas Reeman did convoy duty in the navy in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his own name and more than twenty best-selling historical novels featuring Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.
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