Ramage & the Guillotine

Across the English Channel, Napoleon has massed a great invasion flotilla. English forces, under Lord Nelson, are all but paralyzednot knowing the size, strength, or time of the foreign onslaught. In a daring spy scheme to protect British shores, Ramage is chosen to plumb the secrets of the French, and the penalty for failure is the guillotine. Review "Not even C. S. Forester knows more about the routine and battle procedures of the British Navy in the days of Nelson." -- The New York Times "Ramage is a blazing, individual character in his own right. . . his latest adventure is one of the best." -- Evening News "The first and still favourite rival to Hornblower." -- Daily Mirror About the Author Dudley Pope , a naval defense correspondent of the London Evening News, progressed to writing carefully researched naval history. C.S. Forester urged Pope to try his hand at fiction and saw the younger writer as his literary heir. Pope began [...]what was to become an impressive series with Ramage (1965) and, over the next 24 years, produced 17 more novels tracing Lord Ramage's career. Pope died in 1997.