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      Enemy in Sight!

      by Alexander Kent
      Published
      Jan 1970
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      Action Adventure Action & Adventure
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      Richard Bolitho Novels Book 12

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      It's 1794, and England has been at battle with Revolutionary France for almost two years as this sweeping yarn of the sea begins. Captain Richard Bolitho sets sail in the Hyperion with his untrained and undermanned crew for blockade duty off France. But Commodore Mathias Pelham-Martin proves to be both an egotistical and incompetent superior, whose petty hostilities jeopardize the operation of an entire fleet. As the enemy goes in and out of sight, the Hyperion gives chase from the Bay of Biscay with its bitter squalls to the Caribbean and its impossible heat. Finally, the long overdue rendezvous takes place .. .

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      Book 12
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      Action Adventure Historical Literary

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      Military Nautical

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      Aug 1971 Berkley ISBN13 9780425020388 ISBN10 042502038X
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      Jan 1970 Random House (UK) ISBN13 9780091005900 ISBN10 0091005906
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      Dec 1976 Amereon Limited ISBN13 9780848805500 ISBN10 084880550X
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