A Private Revenge - Tapa dura

This sequel to In Distant Waters is a story of treachery and greed set on board the frigate HM Patrician. Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater accepts an assignment to carry silver down the Chinese coast, but the ship is overcrowded with prisoners and a dramatic encounter is about to take place.;Other novels by Richard Woodman featuring Nathaniel Drinkwater include An Eye of the Fleet, A King's Cutter, The Bomb Vessel and Baltic Mission.

Richard Woodman is well-known for his Nathaniel Drinkwater series of historical naval novels, a dozen other sea-stories, histories of the development of ships and works on sea-power during the Napoleonic Wars. He has also produced two widely acclaimed studies of convoys operations during the Second World War, Malta Convoys and Arctic Convoys.