Jackass Frigate — Alaric Bond

How do you maintain discipline on a ship when someone murders your first lieutenant -- and a part of you agrees with their action? 


December 1796.  It was a time of unrest and discontent for Britain, made even worse by the war with Revolutionary France and the possibility of imminent invasion.  Fresh from the dockyard, HMS Pandora, a 28-gun frigate, is about to set sail to join the Mediterranean Fleet. 

For Captain Banks the harsh winter weather and threat of a French invasion are not his only problems.  He has an untried ship, a tyrant for a First Lieutenant, a crew that contains at least one murderer, and he is about to sail into one of the biggest naval battles in British history -- the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. 

“Alaric Bond has stepped into the first rank of writers of historic naval fiction.” 

The Second Book in the Fighting Sail Series