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David Donachie
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An avowed lover of naval fiction with a streak of mischief, David Donachie has sailed into a breach in the nautical genre by blending seagoing adventure with the mystery and twists of a whodunnit. A Scot by birth, he lives on the Channel coast of England, where he works to keep his inspirations in motion ("I have about three ideas a day . . . by the way, all my ideas are great") and has lately published a biographical novel about Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton. He now lives in Deal with his partner, Sarah and two children, Thomas and Charlotte.
   
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Devil's Own Luck #1
Dying Trade; The #2
Hanging Matter; A #3
Element of Chance; An #4
Scent of Betrayal; The #5
Game of Bones; A #6

 
[B01017] Devil's Own Luck #1 by David Donachie,
--1793--Turned out of the Royal Navy to less orderly pursuits as a privateer, Harry Ludlow finds himself aboard the navy's 74-gun Magnanime, with his younger brother James. Then James is found standing over the mariner-body of a dead officer . . . an officer with whom James has an unfortunate history. From the dark bowels of a troubled ship of line, where perversity hides in the shadows, to the rough-and-tumble docks of Genoa, privateersman Harry Ludlow is stalked by the specter of murder. Donachie's series cleverly splices high seas adventure and the whodunit. The period flavor richly evokes the end of the 18th century.
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[B01028] Dying Trade; The #2 by David Donachie,
--1794--Arriving in the squalid, seething port of Genoa, Harry Ludlow and his brother James find a tinderbox of tension, fed by the discovery of a hanged British sea captain and packs of English and French sailors at each other's throats.
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[B01116] Element of Chance; An #4 by David Donachie,
--1795-- As war spreads across the globe, Harry Ludlow joins the struggle for the richest trade in the world. When half of his crew is illegally pressed into the Royal Navy by the vicious Captain Toner, Harry sets off in pursuit of Toner's ship. When Toner reaches the West Indies with Harry close behind, they sail into a maelstrom of piracy, corruption, and murder stirred up by a French privateer. Soon, the British officer in charge of the station calls upon each man to help in his individual way. All the while, Harry's kidnapped crew fights for survival on a ship driven to the point of mutiny.
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[B01227] Game of Bones; A #6 by David Donachie,
--The pursuit of one last easy prize leads Harry and his crew straight into the dangerous waters of rebellion, and a desperate undercover fight to safeguard the realm. Harry is soon back at sea, staking everything he owns in a bid to alter the course of history.
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[B01115] Hanging Matter; A #3 by David Donachie,
--Returning to England, Harry and James become embroiled in a vicious struggle between rival smugglers played out in the English Channel. Witnesses to a bloody confrontation, they flee to Deal—only to find that, behind its picturesque facade, the town is a haven for traders in contraband, seething with corruption and violence.
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[B01226] Scent of Betrayal; The #5 by David Donachie,
--1795. Harry finds an abandoned merchant ship while conveying a group of French mariners fleeing the French Revolution to the New Orleans of 1795. The Spanish authorities are suspicious and desperately interested in finding out what happened to the ship. Large sums of money and revolutionary politics are involved. As a result the Ludlows are pinned under the guns of New Orleans until they can solve the mystery.
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