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A Battle Won
A Battle Won
Apr 26, 2025 10:17 PM

Author:Sean Thomas Russell

A Battle Won

'Fire as she bears. Rake her, lads.'

Winter, 1793. Newly promoted Master and Commander Charles Hayden's orders are to deliver the frigate HMS Themis to Lord Admiral Hood, whose fleet is sheltering in the Mediterranean. Only hours out of port, however, and the Themis is engaging with the French navy.

Hayden's destination is Toulon, a French port under Lord Hood's protection. But there Hayden's captaincy and seamanship are stretched to their limits. For Toulon holds a deadly surprise for the unwary . . .

A Battle Won is the brilliant second instalment in the epic maritime adventures of Charles Hayden. A masterpiece in the tradition of Bernard Cornwell and Patrick O'Brian.

Reviews

With Exit Wound, McNab has carried the flame of his internationally acclaimed hero to its most breathless destination yet...the language he uses is full of quirky phrases, bullet-bouncing humour and technical savvy...A good, grit-crunching yarn

—— Sunday Express

Ticking like a time-bomb brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab's latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption and cover-up

—— Yorkshire Evening Post

[Nick] Stone is a deceptively complex action hero who does as good a job as many a newspaper columnist in guiding us through the new global politics

—— Mail on Sunday

All the brute force and kinetic action we want from him

—— Good Book Guide

Nick Stone is emerging as one of the great all-action characters of recent times. Like his creator, the ex-SAS soldier turned uber agent is unstoppable

—— Daily Mirror

Ticking like a time-bomb, Andy McNab's latest Nick Stone adventure is full of suspense

—— Express & Star Wolverhampton

It's a blast

—— Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Subtle, persuasive and unsettling. A brilliantly troubling and heartening novel

—— Sunday Times

Many passages in The Plot Against America echo feelings voiced today by vulnerable Americans – immigrants and minorities as alarmed by Trump’s election as the Jews of Newark are frightened by Lindbergh’s

—— New Yorker

Dazzling. The most exciting novelist writing today

—— Independent on Sunday

The novel is full of his usual furious cackling; tragedy tipping into comedy and comedy into tragedy within the space of a few sentences. The prose is beautiful

—— Mail on Sunday

A sensation

—— Sunday Times

A polemical classic

—— Esquire

Brilliant

—— Metro

One of the best writers of dialogue in the history of inverted commas

—— The Times

A reverberating celebration of family, community and humanity

—— Sunday Times
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