It’s been a long time coming but yesterday I published Book 14 in Kindle and Paperback. It’s called An Upright Man; I won’t spoil it be telling you the meaning of the title. What I can say is that it’s set in the dying days of the Seven Years War when the French King wanted to put pressure on Britain in advance of peace negotiations. He needed a rapid success and he’d already found that land operations couldn’t achieve that. His chosen target was a small but economically significant colony of Britain, and he sent his boldest naval commander to capture it, destroy its infrastructure, and depart before the already stretched British navy could react. The story reveals how far the strategy succeeded, and the part that Captain George Holbrooke of His Britannic Majesty’s frigate Argonaut played in this drama, and if you yearn for a true French naval hero then you’ll find him in this book.

An Upright Man is available in Kindle and Paperback formats in all of the regional Amazon markets.

David Lane Pusey is working hard to narrate the whole series and I’m presently reviewing Book 8 Niagara Squadron which given a fair wind will be available before Christmas. The audio book of An Upright Man will follow in due course