Blood for Breakfast

by Adam Hardy

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• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B001BJARDE
• ISBN13: 9780450017193
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: New English Library

Customer Reviews

Adventures and misadventures of Lieutenant Fox

This is No. 6 in the series of novels featuring George Abercrombie Fox, Royal Navy, written by Kenneth Bulmer using the pen name Adam Hardy. I think this novel, copyright 1973, may be my favorite of the series. Lieutenant Fox, commanding a captured lateener with the remnants of the crew from the Raccoon, first captures a privateer brig, then rescues a Turkish harem from a sinking French ship, then captures and loses a Spanish 3-decker. This is a swashbuckling, action/adventure novel, and the author uses literary license where it suits the story (he is not obsessed with the finer details of shiphandling, etc.). Events may seem improbable, but the novels in the series do not lack action. Fox, of course, is a tarpaulin lieutenant with no interest to advance his career. The fates play games with him, tempting him with good luck and dreams of gold, but yanking it back away. As someone said, luck is luck even if it's bad luck. In the case of Fox, luck always seems to reverse directions. Fox is like an addicted gambler, who gets ahead, but keeps playing, betting it all on the next roll of the dice. One will have to read the next novel in the series to see what the fates have in store for Fox.