With All Despatch

More navel action from Douglas Reeman writing as Alexander Kent, the master storyteller of the sea.A troubled peace with France means that in the harbours and estuaries around England, the royal fleet has been left to rot. Even a frigate captain as famous as Richard Bolitho is forced to swallow his pride and visit the Admiralty daily to plead for a ship. As the clouds of war begin to rise once mor...