Bibliograph

Blown off course, David Donachie

Type

Label

Blown off course, David Donachie

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Blown off course

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

784884569

Responsibility statement

David Donachie

Summary

Lieutenant John Pearce is considering his future. Lacking funds, an occupation if he leaves naval service, or the evidence of perjury he once held against Captain Ralph Barclay, the brute who pressed he and his friends into the navy, his prospects are not promising. Ralph Barclay meanwhile has problems of his own. His wife Emily is refusing to live under the same roof as him and she has the means to get her own way: the perjury evidence Pearce believes lost at sea. Barclay's slippery clerk, Gherson, has as much at stake as his employer and is prepared to go to any lengths to silence Emily and

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