The Devil's Own Luck

✍ Scribed by Donachie, David

• Book ID: 107757856
• Publisher: McBooks Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 271 KB
• Series: Privateersman Mystery 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781590135730

✦ Synopsis

1. Privateer Harry Ludlow finds himself aboard the navy's 74-gun Magnanime, with his younger brother James. In command is Oliver Carter, a captain with whom Harry has an unfortunate history. When James is found standing over the body of a dead officer, Harry's feud shifts into the background. But dark secrets start to surface on all sides.

From Publishers Weekly

Royal Navy officer-turned-privateer Harry Ludlow might get rich capturing French trade ships, an activity sanctioned under the wartime rules of 1793. In David Donachie's first book, The Devil's Own Luck: The Privateersmen Mysteries, Harry's brother James is accused of murder, and they find themselves in trouble with corrupt naval officers as the war rages around them.

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Review

"A must for armchair mariners. . . . It's superb stuff." -- Manchester Evening News

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