
Colours Aloft!" the sixteenth Richard Bolitho novel bears all the hallmarks of its best-selling predecessors. It is September 1803. Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds himself the new master of the Argonaute a French flagship taken in battle. With the Peace of Armiens in ruins he must leave the safety of Falmouth. What lies ahead is the grim reality of war at close quarters
- where Bolitho who will be called upon to anticipate the overall intention of the French fleet. But the battle has also become a personal vendetta between himself & the French admiral who formerly sailed the Argonaute. Bolitho & his men are driven to a final rendezvous where no quarter is asked or given."