Title: In the King's Name
Description: Filled with high-seas intrigue and sharp tensions, this nautical novel takes an intense voyage into the heart of Napoleonic-era Africa. The year is 1819 and Captain Adam Bolitho has been sent on an urgent but risky mission to make a fast passage from Plymouth to Freetown, West Africa, with secret orders for the senior officer stationed there. Due to the slave trade being declared illegal, ships in every harbor are waiting to be scrapped and officers have been cut loose without hope of future commands, thus Adam soon finds himself the object of envy and jealousy. In Africa he discovers unexpect
Subjects: Ship captains, Seafaring life, Slavery, Fiction, History, Sea stories, Slave trade, Naval history, Fiction, sea stories, Fiction, historical, general, fiction", Great britain, fiction, Fiction, historical
Places: Great Britain, England
People: Richard Bolitho (Fictitious character), Adam Bolitho (Fictitious character)
Time periods: 19th century