RELENTLESS PURSUIT.** by KENT**, ALEXANDER [pseud Douglas Reeman]:

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Neat,blue ink owner name+date to front pastedown's top corner and hidden by dw/dj front inner flap,but no price-clip to dw/dj.Top+fore-edges lightly aged and minimally dust-soiled,but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean also.Sharp-cornered,bright,clean,publisher's original black cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.Book has slight spine roll/lean.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj, 1st edn,1-323pp [paginated] includes 19 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,quote extract and contents list/table.
An Adam Bolitho,nephew of Richard Bolitho,sea-faring adventure novel.
It is December 1815 and Adam Bolitho's orders are unequivocal.As captain of His Majesty's frigate Unrivalled of forty-six guns,he is required to 'repair in the first instance to Freetown,Sierra Leone, and reasonably assist the senior officer of the patrolling squadron'.But all efforts of the British anti-slavery patrols to curb a flourishing trade in human life are hampered by unsuitable ships,by the indifference of a government more concerned with old enemies made distrustful allies, and by the continuing belligerence of the Dey of Algiers,which threatens to ignite a full-scale war.
For Adam,also,there is no peace.Lost in grief and loneliness,his uncle's death still unavenged,he is uncertain of all but his identity as a man of war.The sea is his element,the ship his only home,and a
reckless,perhaps doomed attack on an impregnable stronghold his only hope of settling the bitterest of debts.
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