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John Drake

Fletcher and the Great Raid

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1795. Inventor James Watt is accused of stealing a patent for a steam engine by the McCloud brothers. Furious with their boss, they take their technology to France, where Napoleon Bonaparte promises great things to come. The French and the English are at war, and a steam engine would be very valuable, allowing either side to leap the channel.Jacob Fletcher is a career navy man. Whether he wanted to be or not is open for debate. He is serving on the Serpant, under the inept Captain Cuthbert Percival-Clive, whose mother is Prime Minister William Pitt's sister. Captain Percival-Clive has no interest in anything to do with his ship, and spends as… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-83901-372-0
  • EAN: 9781839013720
  • Produktnummer: 37573663
  • Verlag: Lightning Source Inc
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 298 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.7 cm 401 g
  • Gewicht: 401

Über den Autor


John Drake trained as a biochemist to post-doctorate research level before realizing he was no good at science. His working career was in the television department of ICI until 1999 when he became a full-time writer. John's hobby is muzzle-loading shooting, and his interests are British history and British politics (as a spectator), plus newspapers, TV news, and current affairs. He is married with a son and two grandchildren.

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