An Eye of the Fleet: A Nathaniel Drinkwater Novel (Mariners Library Fiction Classic) - Softcover

Nautical novelist Richard Woodman arrives in New World ports with the first three of 14 installments in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series, previously released in the U.K. between 1981 and 1983 and compared by critics there to C. S. Forester's Hornblower saga. Part of the Mariner's Library Fiction Classics, An Eye of the Fleet, A King's Cutter, and A Brig of War are set in the late 18th Century and find hero Drinkwater caught up in revolutions on both sides of the Atlantic. Those looking for high seas action and historical intrigue are in luck but these are strictly for devotees of the genre.--Publishers Weekly

Action to the bone, no romantic bilgewater, a first-rate account of conditions in Rodney's navy.--The Observer

A new novel of high seas adventure sheds light on the Moonlight Battle of 1780, featuring Nathanial Drinkwater in the captain's chair. Reprint.