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Buy this book on-line KENT**, ALEXANDER [pseud Douglas Reeman]: : Signal-Close Action!** [Author SIGNED copy.**]LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1974. ISBN 0091213304.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's
handwritten,neat,blue ink signature and dedication: 'With best wishes Alexander Kent',to title page,also laid-in, immaculate blue+b/w illustrated Richard Bolitho card bookmark,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Chris Mayger,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears.Slight,miniscule rubbing to head+ foot of spine/backstrip and to all corners too.Front inner flap of dw/dj has a 11/16th" wide vertical crease.Top edge lightly aged/tanned with some sporadic foxing/spotting,fore-edge brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any page's corners.Bright,clean, publisher's original brown-maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate black+grey map illustrated endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-320pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters+epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and contents list/table.
Author's 7th Richard Bolitho novel.
In this,the 7th Bolitho novel,Alexander
Kent continues Bolitho's story following the events described in 'The Flag Captain'.Once again Mr Kent has combined historical authenticity with stirring storytelling of the highest order,and
'Signal-Close Action!' will be enthusiastically welcomed by his ever- growing international readership.
When in 1798 Richard Bolitho hoists his broad pendant as commodore of a small
squadron and prepares to re-enter the Mediterranean he is soon made aware of his
responsibility.
There are rumours of a massive French armada and of the latest type of artillery
- and Bolitho's orders are to seek out the
enemy and to discover the intentions of his growing force.
Without any British bases in the Mediterranean,and unable to show favour to
old friends,Bolitho is well aware that
there are others within his ships who are no less dangerous than the enemy - and during the weeks and months in which the squadron faces the hazards of the weather and French broadsides alike,Bolitho knows
that far more than his own future is at stake.A fleet,even a nation,could depend
on his decisions and,when he places his squadron between the Nile and the power of
France,he must accept the price of the challenge.
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