A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812

by James L. Haley

Book Overview

Prowling the South Atlantic in the Tempest, Bliven takes prizes and disrupts British merchant shipping, until he is overhauled, overmatched, and disastrously defeated by the frigate HMS Java. On board he finds his old friend Sam Bandy, one of the Java's American seamen pressed into British service. Their whispered plans to foment a mutiny among the captives may see them hang, when the Constitution looms over the horizon for one of the most famous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399171118
• ISBN13: 9780399171116
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.3"