London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.

New / New. Item #012852
ISBN: 9781444712001

Cape Colony, is proving a tiresome assignment for Thomas Kydd's daring commander-in-chief Commodore Popham: South America's Spanish colonies are in a ferment of popular unrest.

Rumors of a treasure hoard of Spanish silver spur him to assemble a makeshift invasion fleet and launch a bold attack on the capital of the Viceroyalty of the River Plate in Buenos Aires.

Navigating the treacherous bars and mud flats of the river, the British invasion force wins a battle against improbable odds, taking the capital and the silver. But the uprising that promises the end of Spanish rule never arrives and the locals begin to see dark conspiracies behind the invader's actions.

More historically accurate than the Patrick O'Brian series. [Royal Navy Sailing Association Journal]

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