In Gallant Company — Alexander Kent

"WARS ARE NOT FOUGHT WITH HIGH PHRASES. THEY ARE FOUGHT WITH POWDER AND SHOT, CUTLASS AND CANNON, STOUT SHIPS AND GALLANT MEN..."

Fighting from the blood-reddened deck of a great ship-of-the-line--boarding privateers from a launch in an offshore fog--Lieutenant Richard Bolitho learns the harsh truth of his Captain's words.

The year is 1777. What began as a "disturbance" in the colonies is fast becoming a war, and Bolitho and the men of HMS Trojan must stop--with shot and shell--the swift American schooners that would defy England's glory...