TY - BOOK AU - Russell,Sean TI - A ship of war SN - 9780718157494 (hbk.) AV - PR U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Michael Joseph KW - Seafaring life KW - Fiction KW - Great Britain KW - History, Naval KW - 18th century KW - France KW - History KW - Revolution, 1789-1799 KW - Sea stories KW - Adventure fiction KW - gsafd KW - Historical fiction N2 - Captain Charles Hayden has orders to destroy a French frigate sailing from Le Havre and to gather intelligence from a royalist spy. On discovering French plans for an imminent attack on British soil, Hayden must return to Portsmouth to give warning before it is too late. But the enemy have been lying in wait for him, and so begins a dangerous chase out into the Atlantic and into the midst of a French squadron ER -