A Private Revenge

Captain Richard Martin Woodman retired in 1997 from a 37-year nautical career. Woodman's Nathaniel Drinkwater series is often compared to the work of the late Patrick O'Brian. Woodman is the author of some two dozen nautical novels, as well as several nonfiction books. Unlike many other modern naval historical novelists, such as C.S. Forester or O'Brian, he has served afloat. He went to sea at the age of sixteen as an indentured midshipman and spent eleven years in command. His experience ranges from cargo-liners to ocean weather ships and specialist support vessels to yachts, square-riggers, and trawlers. Said Lloyd's List of his work: "As always, Richard Woodman's story is closely based on actual historical events. All this we have come to expect—and he adds that special ambience of colourful credibility which makes his nautical novels such rattling good reads."

A Private Revenge: Contents

PART ONE: THE DAMOCLEAN SWORD

The Typhoon

1 The Brig

2 New Orders

3 Whampoa

4 The Dragon's Roar

5 The Matter of Morale

6 The Concerns of a Convoy

7 Morris

8 Fair Winds and Foul Tempers

9 Infirmities of Character

10 A Small Victory

11 Blood and Rain

PART TWO: NEMESIS

12 A Council of War

13 A Round Robin

14 The Winds of Fortune

15 The Bronze-bound Chests

16 Blow-pipe Creek

17 The Gates of the Fortress

18 Pursuit

PART THREE: A PRIVATE REVENGE

19 The Tripod

20 A Forlorn Hope

21 A Private Revenge

22 Penang

Author's Note