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The Privateerrsquo;s Revenge, by Julian Stockwin

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I donrsquo;t buy many hardbacks when theyrsquo;re released. Instead, I typically put it on hold first through my neighborhood public library or ndash; failing that ndash; wait until it comes out in paperback a year or so later. However, Julian Stockwinrsquo;s Napoleonic-era British naval series about rising star Thomas Kydd is one that I pre-order immediately through Amazon the moment I hear it will be out in the next new release season. Which, I proudly admit, is exactly what I did with this, the ninth book in the series, way back in the summer when I found out it was to roll off the presses this October. And, yes, it is worth paying for it in hardback.

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After a long string of successes in both his personal and professional sea-faring lives for many books, The Privateerrsquo;s Revenge begins where the last book, The Admiralrsquo;s Daughter, left off: Having just taken the hand of a woman of lesser social rank by turning away the titular daughter of a high-ranking naval admiral, Kydd loses his new bride in a freak accident. And it is this nadir in his life that opens this latest book as our hero lies sullen in the deepest and most morose of glooms.

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Just when you think that the situation cannot possibly get worse, it does. First Kydd falls into a trap laid by an unknown enemy ndash; and trust me, the suspected perp is merely a classic red herring ndash; which causes him to lose not just his Letter of Marque, but his standing as an acting naval commander. Then when he tries his hand at earning a prize or two as a privateer, he is fired after bringing in the slimmest of pickings. Meanwhile, his friend, confidant, and shiprsquo;s clerk (and once first lieutenant, even) Nicholas Renzi goes off in search of a new job, only to be hired by Commodore drsquo;Auvergne to aide in the abduction of the Tyrant ndash; alias Napoleon ndash; by French loyalists.

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Naval fiction set in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth is clearly having a run in recent times ndash; as evidenced by many bookstores devoting an entire section to this growing and increasingly popular literary sub-genre. But Stockwin is clearly a cut above the rest. Truly is he the torch-bearer of the late Patrick Orsquo;Brian and, before him, the indomitable C. S. Forester.

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Oh, and I honestly donrsquo;t know what is up with this bookrsquo;s icon on Facebookrsquo;s Virtual Bookshelf with its cover-title reading Treachery. Perhaps this is the UK version? Odd ndash; and just a bit annoying -- when we change book titles here in the U.S. With a foreign book. Particularly when it is already written in English.

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