Adventures of Charles Hayden series book 1
Narrator Nick Boulton

A sweeping novel of maritime mutiny set against the backdrop of the French
Revolution that evokes such masters as Patrick O'Brian and Bernard Cornwell.
At the time of the French Revolution, one of Britain's most skillful naval
officers, Charles Saunders Hayden, is a young lieutenant, the son of an
English father and a French mother. His abilities and his loyalty to the king
of England are beyond dispute, yet his career seems doomed by his "mixed"
heritage and lack of political connections. Consequently, Hayden is assigned
to an aging frigate, the Themis, under the command of Captain Josiah Hart,
a man known as "Faint Hart" throughout the service. As the Themis takes to sea
to harass the enemy, the disaffection of the crew begins to boil over into acts
of violence, and the lieutenant finds himself caught between his superior and
a crew pushed toward mutiny. A revolution at sea ensues, and Hayden is
wrenchingly torn between honour and duty, as the magnificent Royal Navy engages
the French in a centuries-old struggle for power.

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