The War Chest

✍ Scribed by Hill, Porter

• Book ID: 109054596
• Publisher: Souvenir Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 970 KB
• Series: Adam Horne 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780285642126

✦ Synopsis

The Bombay Marines are the East India Company’s private fighting ships, defending India’s coast and naval trading routes. Captain Adam Horne is the commander of history’s first naval commandos and a hero in the mould of Hornblower, Alexander Kent’s Bolitho or Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey and Maturin. In this second part of the Adam Horne trilogy, follows The Bombay Marines which ‘Lloyd’s List’ described as “everything a good yarn should have”, the dare-devil Captain Horne, leader of history’s first commando-style unit, is re-united with his motley but loyal band of ex-convict fighters. Commodore Watson gives Horne his new orders with great reluctance, feeling deep down that he is sending the captain and his crew to certain death. Horne sails to Madagascar on a mission of such danger and daring that no one in London, where the plan has been evolved, believes that it can succeed. With the war against the French at...