The Glorious First - Jack Vizzard, #2 - E-book - ePub

The sequel to the successful First Fleet in which Lieutenant Jack Vizzard of HM Corps of Marines is tasked with escorting from France a valued government agent carrying intelligence of vital importance to the government of William Pitt. Vizzard is betrayed and captured by a traitor and must escape from France. He is befriended by a beautiful Frenchwoman who can help him. But can he trust her?Safely back in Britain Vizzard is charged by the Prime Minister with further espionage work and must return to France.
His work there leads to the first fleet battle of the Revolutionary War, known in Britain as the Glorious First of June. As commander of a detachmant of marines on HMS Brunswick he now has what he has long sought - action in the fiercest individual contest between two ships in the bloodiest battle at sea during the Revolutionary War with France.