On a Particular Service: A John Pearce Adventure
()
About this ebook
The fourteenth volume in the popular John Pearce Adventures set on the high seas
1796: Lieutenant John Pearce is heading home aboard a hospital ship crammed with human cargo, yet the journey is far from plain sailing. Evading capture by an Algerine warship, Pearce attempts to save his disparate band of friends, the Pelicans, from being pressed into service on a British frigate—only for the group to risk being hanged for desertion once home.
While using his cunning to protect his friends, his clandestine relationship with widow Emily Barclay becomes more complicated. In a whirlwind of forged wills, devious trades, contrived murders, and dangerous spy missions, Pearce does not know whom to trust. All he can hope to do is survive.
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.
Read more from David Donachie
Hawkwood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrince of Legend: A Crusades Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSon of Blood: A Crusades Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEvery Second Counts: An Armistice Thriller Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to On a Particular Service
Titles in the series (13)
An Awkward Commission: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5HMS Hazard: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlown Off Course: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Perils of Command: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Ill Wind: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEnemies at Every Turn: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Sea of Troubles: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Close Run Thing: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Troubled Course: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn a Particular Service: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Treacherous Coast: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBy the Mast Divided: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDroits of the Crown: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related ebooks
A Sea of Troubles: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Perils of Command: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Ill Wind: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Treacherous Coast: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHonour Redeemed: A Markham of the Marines Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Close Run Thing: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRunning the Gauntlet: Cargo Liners Under Fire 1939–1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPath of the Storm Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Troubled Course: A John Pearce Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Falmouth Frigate: An Isaac Biddlecomb Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Last Roman: Triumph Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPeter Murphy: Lands End for Orders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYoung Lion of the Woods: Or, A Story of Early Colonial Days Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHigh Water Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMerchant Sailors at War, 1943–1945: Beating the U-Boat Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom Powder Monkey to Admiral Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mighty Hood: The Battleship that Challenged the Bismarck Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wreck of the "Royal Charter": Compiled from Authentic Sources, with Some Original Matter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStrange Tales of the Sea Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of The Wager By David Grann:A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLooking Seaward Again Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHonour Be Damned: A Markham of the Marines Novel Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5'Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea': The Story of 835 Naval Air Squadron in the Second World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWith Blood and Iron Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Men Under the Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dönitz and the Wolf Packs Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Windjammers and Sea Tramps Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fighting Captain: The Story of Frederic Walker RN CB DSO & The Battle of the Atlantic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Sea Stories Fiction For You
Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We, the Drowned Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Moby Dick (Complete Unabridged Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tress of the Emerald Sea: Secret Projects, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don Quixote Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5My Oxford Year: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wreck of the Titan Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: A new fantasy series set a thousand years before The City of Brass Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Good Shepherd Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Daughter In Law: A gripping psychological thriller with a twist you won't see coming Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Agartha: The Earth's Inner World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5King of Libertines Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blue Descent: Dane Maddock Adventures, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sea of Thieves: Athena's Fortune Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pod: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Smokey God: Or; A Voyage to the Inner World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Stuck On You: The perfect laugh-out-loud romantic comedy from bestseller Portia MacIntosh Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Star of the Sea: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Titanic's Last Secret Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Seize the Fire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond the Sea: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Wreck of the Titan: The Novel that Predicted the Titanic Disaster Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEast Coast Girls: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for On a Particular Service
0 ratings0 reviews