The Contraband Shore - Paperback

by David Donachie (Author)

Volume #1 in The Contraband Shore trilogy. Recently paid off from his frigate and comfortably off with prize money, Captain Edward Brazier heads to Deal to propose marriage to young widow Betsey Langridge. But all does not go well; between Betsy's brother and guardian, Henry Tulkington, prohibiting the match and Brazier marked out for trouble by a local smuggling gang, his plans fall into disarray.

Author Biography

David Donachie (1944-2023) was born in Edinburgh. He always had an abiding interest in military history, including ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, the British navy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the clandestine services during the Second World War. He had more than fifty published novels to his credit, with over a million combined sales. David lived in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea.