Audacity, Privateer Out of Portsmouth: Continuing the Account of the Life and Times of Geoffrey Frost, Mariner, of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire ...

Geoffrey Frost #2

by J.E. Fender

Book two of the Frost Saga continues the exciting nautical adventures launched in The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost, hailed as "an auspicious start" by Library Journal and now available in paperback. Mariner, merchant, and reluctant warrior, Geoffrey Frost has entered the American Revolution on behalf of the colony of New Hampshire, commanding a captured British sloop o' war and sailing out of Portsmouth to harass the British fleet. As Audacity opens, he is returning from Canada following a daring rescue of American prisoners held at Louisburg when he sails into a fog bank -- and straight into a British convoy shepherded by a thirty-two gun frigate. In serving the American cause, Frost will impersonate a British merchant, capture several supply ships, order the execution of some of his own countrymen who have turned pirate and renegade, and perform an extraordinary feat of navigation in order to restore two men to the ship of the great explorer Captain James Cook. He will also meet the beguiling and exasperating Lady Cygnet, an opera singer, who promises to enliven and complicate Frost's life in future volumes.

298 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2003

About the author

J. E. Fender is author of 'The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost'. He is Legal Counsel for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire - the U.S. Navy's oldest shipyard.

Reviews

[Barry]

Interesting and exciting second book of J.E.Fender's nautical series.

[Lance]

Some interesting points about the time was made. There is a discussion about how the US did not treat all men equally and it was writen for the rich, and those who had property, and supporting or not admitting slavery.

[Clifdisc]

Starts off a little slow and the archaic language is a bit stiff at times but, once it gets up to speed, this is a great entry in the nautical fiction genre. Two books in, I'd rate the Geoffrey Frost series about on a par with Dudley Pope's Ramage novels, which I enjoy very much.