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By the Mast Divided by David Donachie MOBI
London 1793: Young firebrand John Pearce is illegally press-ganged and dragged off to a brutal life aboard HMS Brilliant, a frigate on its way to war. He meets a disparate group of men, all victims of the Press and obliged to crew a ship's cannon. They quickly form an exclusive band, and Pearce, a natural leader, becomes their gun captain. Shipboard life under the hard-nosed Captain Barclay carries the daily threat of bullying and flogging, but as HMS Brilliant chases French privateer across the English Channel, his young, curvaceous wife Emily provides a light on the horizon.
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