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David Donachie
Full Series List in Order
Armistice
1 - Every Second Counts (Nov-2022)A Conquest Novel
1 - Conquest (Feb-2024)2 - Warriors (Feb-2024)
3 - Mercenaries (Feb-2024)
Contraband Shore
1 - The Contraband Shore (Jan-2018)2 - A Lawless Place (Nov-2018)
3 - Blood Will Out (Nov-2019)
A Crusades Novel
1 - Son of Blood (Mar-2024)2 - Soldier of Crusade (Mar-2024)
3 - Prince of Legend (Mar-2024)
A Firebrand John Pearce Adventure
1 - By the Mast Divided (Feb-2005)2 - A Shot Rolling Ship (Apr-2006)
3 - An Awkward Commission (Nov-2006)
4 - A Flag of Truce (Mar-2008)
5 - The Admirals' Game (May-2009)
6 - An Ill Wind (Jun-2010)
7 - Blown Off Course (Dec-2011)
8 - Enemies at Every Turn (Apr-2012)
9 - A Sea of Troubles (Nov-2012)
10 - A Divided Command (Mar-2014)
11 - The Devil to Pay (Nov-2014)
12 - Perils of Command (Nov-2015)
13 - A Treacherous Coast (Apr-2017)
14 - On a Particular Service (Sep-2017)
15 - A Close Run Thing (Nov-2018)
16 - HMS Hazard (Oct-2021)
17 - A Troubled Course (Nov-2022)
18 - Droits of the Crown (Sep-2023)
The Last Roman
1 - Vengeance (May-2023)2 - Honour (Jun-2023)
3 - Triumph (Jul-2023)
Markham of the Marines
1 - A Shred of Honour (Jan-2014)2 - Honour Redeemed (Jan-2014)
3 - Honour Be Damned (Jan-2014)
Nelson and Emma Trilogy
1 - On a Making Tide (Nov-2003)2 - Tested by Fate (Apr-2004)
3 - Breaking the Line (Oct-2004)
A Privateersman Mystery
1 - The Devil's Own Luck (Oct-2001)2 - The Dying Trade (Oct-1995)
3 - A Hanging Matter (May-2002)
4 - Element of Chance (Jun-2002)
5 - The Scent of Betrayal (Jan-2003)
6 - A Game of Bones (Jan-2003)
A Roads to War Novel
1 - The Burning Sky (Feb-2023)2 - A Broken Land (Mar-2023)
3 - A Bitter Field (Apr-2023)
A Roman Republic Novel
1 - The Pillars of Rome (Oct-2023)2 - The Sword of Revenge (Nov-2023)
3 - The Gods of War (Nov-2023)
Book List in Order: 50 titles
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The Dying Trade
- Oct-1995
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Part naval swashbuckler, part mystery story, "The Dying Trade" tells the story of smuggling and death in the Mediterranean at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Harry Ludlow and his brother James find themselves in Genoa where Harry is commissioned to ...
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The Devil's Own Luck
- Oct-2001
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During the Napoleonic Wars, Harry and James Ludlow are aboard the Magnanime, a gunship under the command of Oliver Carter. Oliver and Harry are old rivals and when James is found near the dead body of the First Lieutenant, Carter assumes James is the...
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A Hanging Matter
- May-2002
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It wasn't quite the homecoming ex-privateer Harry Ludlow had anticipated. Having cheated death and made a handsome profit into the bargain, Harry and his brother James expected their return home to be quiet - until they become embroiled in a fierce c...
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Element of Chance
- Jun-2002
- / Historical Mystery
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The fourth voyage into print for Harry and James Ludlow. Captain Toner illegally forces Harry's crew to work on his own frigate. Vowing revenge and determined to retrieve his crew, Harry pursues Toner to the West Indies where he is thrown into a mael...
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A Game of Bones
- Jan-2003
- / Historical Mystery
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Following an encounter with a mystery vessel, the red flags fluttering from the top masts of the "Bucephalas" signal that His Majesty's Navy has reached a state of mutiny. However, Harry Ludlow soon finds himself back at sea and staking everything he...
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The Scent of Betrayal
- Jan-2003
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The fifth adventure for Harry Ludlow, privateer, and his brother James, which includes: a hazardous journey into the political intrigue of the city of New Orleans, a trek into the woods of the American Hinterland, and an escape up the Mississippi fro...
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On a Making Tide
- Nov-2003
- / Historical
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A chronicle of the fascinating early years of Horatio Nelson and Emma Lyon. Both determined to rise from obscurity, they set about making their ways through the world with corresponding recklessness and precocious ambition. Nelson enters the Royal Na...
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Tested by Fate
- Apr-2004
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It's 1784 and Nelson is sent to the Caribbean to enforce the hated Navigation Acts. While there, he marries Fanny Nisbet. Ordered next to the Mediterranean, he engages in a string of spectacular naval battles: Cape St Vincent, Tenerife, and the Nile....
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Breaking the Line
- Oct-2004
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Having evacuated the King and Queen of Naples ahead of Napoleon's advancing army, Nelson must now await developments in Sicily. In the meantime, he and Emma savor their passionate affair, and when Nelson travels back to Britain with the Hamiltons, he...
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By the Mast Divided
- Feb-2005
- / Historical
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London 1793: Young firebrand John Pearce is illegally pressganged from the refuge of the Pelican tavern to a brutal life aboard HMS Brilliant, a frigate on its way to war. In the first few days Pearce discovers the Navy is a world in which he can pro...
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A Shot Rolling Ship
- Apr-2006
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Pressed into King George's Navy for the second time in a month, John Pearce and his Pelicans find themselves working aboard the HMS Brazen, sailing the Channel from Plymouth to Dover in search of the numerous French privateers that prey on English me...
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An Awkward Commission
- Nov-2006
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Stranded in Portsmouth, John Pearce has once again failed to secure the release of those who depended on him -- his fellow Pelicans. They have been shipped off to the Mediterranean while he was indulging himself in London. So he must take ship and fo...
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A Flag of Truce
- Mar-2008
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Revolution. Bloodshed. Glory. 1793. Returning triumphant from Corsica, Lieutenant John Pearce receives a mixed welcome. But with the siege of Toulon escalating in violence and the French Revolutionary Army preparing to attack, all thoughts of revenge...
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The Admirals' Game
- May-2009
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Since being illegally press-ganged into joining King George's Navy, John Pearce has overcome numerous adversaries, which have secured him a position of command on board HMS Faron. Having successfully overcome the French at the Siege of Toulon, Pearce...
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An Ill Wind
- Jun-2010
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It is 1793. John Pearce and his Pelicans are going home - to gain their freedom and put the treacherous Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock. Emily Barclay discovers Pearce has papers that would ruin her husband’s career and her future security. And t...
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Blown Off Course
- Dec-2011
- / Historical
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Lieutenant John Pearce is in London seeking protection for his friends, the Pelicans, from a reluctant Admiralty, unaware that they have been turfed off the ship on which he left them in safety. Sitting in the tavern where he and the Pelicans were fi...
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Enemies at Every Turn
- Apr-2012
- / Historical
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Free from jail, John Pearce is not free from the smugglers whose boat he stole, they want bloody revenge and are prepared to chase him to the ends of the earth to get it. Two of his Pelicans are now back in the Navy and need his help - what fate puts...
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A Sea of Troubles
- Nov-2012
- / Historical
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1794. In the wake of the Glorious 1st of June, an equivocal success for the British naval fleet against Revolutionary France, John Pearce has pressing matters to which he must attend. He has an urgent commission from Lord Hood, he must track down Mid...
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Honour Be Damned
- Jan-2014
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The final volume in the Markham of the Marines trilogyHonour Be Damned finds the fiery British lieutenant George Markham in the waning days of the French Revolution. The revolution is turning in on itself -- Robespierre has met the guillotine -- but ...
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Honour Redeemed
- Jan-2014
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The second volume in the Markham of the Marines trilogyWith his fiery Irish blood and well-known reputation for trouble, Lieutenant George Markham leads his embattled Royal Marines against the French in Corsica. His mission: to seize the island. His ...
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A Shred of Honour
- Jan-2014
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In the tradition of Patrick O’Brian’s adventure novels and C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower series, A Shred of Honour is an epic of eighteenth-century warfare that introduces Lieutenant George Markham of His Majesty’s Royal Marines.Irishman...
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A Divided Command
- Mar-2014
- / Historical
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Unbeknown to John Pearce, the private letter he is delivering on behalf of the prime minister carries the dismissal of the very man he is sailing to see. Politics intervene in matters of the sea and the need for a government majority to pursue the wa...
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The Devil to Pay
- Nov-2014
- / Historical
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Faced with a ship in need of repair, enemy attacks and the threat of wily Admiral Hotham, John Pearce is sailing into danger.Meanwhile Ralph Barclay is on his way to the Mediterranean. Thinking his wife still with Pearce and that he can repair his ma...
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Perils of Command
- Nov-2015
- / General Fiction
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John Pearce, having negotiated the highly questionable sale of the two French prizes taken in The Devil to Pay, has left HMS Flirt, as well as the crew and the wounded Henry Digby, in Brindisi and is now headed for Naples to see his lover. In an unco...
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A Treacherous Coast
- Apr-2017
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The thirteenth volume in the popular John Pearce Adventures set on the high seas1795: Just as Lieutenant John Pearce feels that he has been freed from an old foe, a new one takes his place. In the face of fresh antagonism, and with complications in h...
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On a Particular Service
- Sep-2017
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The fourteenth volume in the popular John Pearce Adventures set on the high seas1796: Lieutenant John Pearce is heading home aboard a hospital ship crammed with human cargo, yet the journey is far from plain sailing. Evading capture by an Algerine wa...
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The Contraband Shore
- Jan-2018
- / General Fiction
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The first volume in The Contraband Shore trilogy.1787: Captain Edward Brazier is on a mission. Recently paid off from his frigate and comfortable with prize money, he is headed to Deal to propose marriage to the lovely young widow Betsey Langridge. ...
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A Close Run Thing
- Nov-2018
- / Mystery
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The fifteenth volume in the popular John Pearce Adventures set on the high seas1796: Lieutenant John Pearce is hiding in the smugglers’ hub of Gravelines with his mysterious companion, known only to him as Oliphant, trapped in French territory with...
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A Lawless Place
- Nov-2018
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The second volume in The Contraband Shore trilogy.1787: Captain Edward Brazier is devastated to find Betsey, the woman he wants to marry, imprisoned in her own home by her brother, Henry Tulkington, and trapped in an illegal marriage. With Brazier su...
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Blood Will Out
- Nov-2019
- / Historical
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The third volume in The Contraband Shore trilogy.1787: Captain Edward Brazier is wounded and in desperate need of medical attention, but his allies have no idea where he is -- although neither do his enemies. With his beloved Betsey facing confinemen...
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HMS Hazard
- Oct-2021
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The sixteenth volume in the popular John Pearce Adventures set on the high seas1796: John Pearce is stuck with a difficult mission â€" a raw crew of Quota Men forced to enlist in the Royal Navy and four brand-new midshipmen as well as Samuel Oliphant...
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Every Second Counts
- Nov-2022
- / Thriller
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July 1940: A month after the evacuation of the defeated and battered Allied forces from Dunkirk, a German invasion of England threatens. In this thrilling historical “what-if,” Prime Minister Winston Churchill has resigned without naming a succes...
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A Troubled Course
- Nov-2022
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The seventeenth volume in the popular John Pearce Adventures set on the high seasJohn Pearce discovers that Madrid plans to desert the British-led coalition and join the enemy. In company with Lord Langholm, he has taken a Spanish treasure ship. But ...
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The Burning Sky
- Feb-2023
- / Historical
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The first installment in Donachie's sweeping Roads to War series set in the pre-WWII European powder keg1935: Cal Jardine is a soldier of fortune. Forced to leave Hamburg where he has been helping Jews flee the Nazis, he is recruited by a secretive B...
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A Broken Land
- Mar-2023
- / Historical
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The second installment in Donachie's sweeping Roads to War series set in the pre-WWII European powder keg1936: Soldier of fortune Cal Jardine travels to Barcelona to help with the athletic games rivalling the Berlin Olympics. But as the first shots o...
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A Bitter Field
- Apr-2023
- / Historical
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The final installment in Donachie's sweeping Roads to War series set in the pre-WWII European powder keg1938: As Hitler sets his sights on the Sudetenland, not everyone in Britain is willing to appease him. Convinced that the FĂĽhrer's land hunger is...
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Droits of the Crown
- Sep-2023
- / General Fiction
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The eighteenth volume in the popular John Pearce Adventures set on the high seasJohn Pearce faces a court martial, but will cowardly Toby Burns, chief witness, stand up to questioning? With the matter unresolved, HMS Hazard is put under the command o...
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The Pillars of Rome
- Oct-2023
- / Historical
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With barbarians at the gate and enemies within, two men must fight for the soul of the great Roman Republic. History and adventure, brutality and courage combine to powerful effect, making The Pillars of Rome an outstanding opening to the Republic tr...
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The Gods of War
- Nov-2023
- / Historical
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The final volume in the powerful Republic trilogyLucius Falerius is dead, and Rome in its entirety mourns the passing of its most powerful senator. It falls to his young son, Marcellus, to carry out his father’s legacy and restore the rights pr...
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The Sword of Revenge
- Nov-2023
- / Historical
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The second volume in the powerful Republic trilogyRome has lost its greatest warrior; Aulus Cornelius is dead. Although he is hailed as a hero, the stench of betrayal by cowardly governor Flaminus lingers heavy in the air. And the death of their fath...
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Mercenaries
- Feb-2024
- / Historical
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The first volume in the sweeping Conquest trilogy1033, on the Norman–French border: It is thirty years before William, Duke of Normandy, sails to England and does battle at Hastings, but the events leading up to that epic moment are already...
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Prince of Legend
- Mar-2024
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The final volume in the powerful Crusades trilogyThe crusading armies go from besieging the citadel of Antioch to themselves being besieged. Although Bohemund, leader of the Apulian Normans, manages to take a firm grip on the city, the army of crusad...
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Soldier of Crusade
- Mar-2024
- / Historical
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The second volume in the powerful Crusades trilogy1096: The Pope has called for a crusade to free Jerusalem, and half the warriors of Europe have responded. Among them is the Norman Count Bohemund, one-time enemy of Byzantium, whose help is requi...
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Son of Blood
- Mar-2024
- / Historical
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Following David Donachie's Conquest series, the de Hautville warrior dynasty shows no sign of falling back into obscurity. This is the first volume in the powerful Crusades trilogy.Eleventh-century Italy: The domination of the Normans, the most feare...
