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    An Awkward Commission: A John Pearce Adventure
    An Awkward Commission: A John Pearce Adventure
    An Awkward Commission: A John Pearce Adventure
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    An Awkward Commission: A John Pearce Adventure

    By David Donachie

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRowmanLittlefield
    Release dateMay 1, 2022
    ISBN9781493061631
    An Awkward Commission: A John Pearce Adventure
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    David Donachie

    Born in Edinburgh in 1944, David Donachie has had a variety of jobs, including selling everything from business machines to soap. He has always had an abiding interest in the naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author of a number of bestselling books, he now lives in Deal, Kent with his wife, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook and their two children.

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