China Flyer (17 page)
Authors: Porter Hill
THE BOMBAY MARINES
THE WAR CHEST
First published in Great Britain in 1986 by Souvenir Press, 43 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3PD
This ebook edition first published in 2013
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ISBN 9780285642133
The Adam Horne trilogy
If you have enjoyed this Adam Horne adventure the other titles in this trilogy are available.
In this, the first part of the Adam Horne trilogy, it is 1761 and Pondicherry, the last stronghold of the French in India, has fallen to the British. Captain Horne is given a secret mission: to capture the defeated French commander, Thomas Lally, from the prison of Fort St. George on Madras – if he fails his unit will be disbanded.
When most of the Bombay Marines are deployed on the east coast of India Horne finds his unit is left undermanned and he is left with only one choice: to take his pick of the motley collection of thieves, rapists and murderers held in the prisons of Bombay Castle and train them for what will be the most closely guarded campaign of the Seven Years’ War.
From the colourful waterfront of Bombay to the sadistic penal colony of Bull Island and the cataclysmic denouement within the walls of Fort St. George Adam Horne, and his ex-convicts, must be prepared for the exotic dangers of India.
Concluding the Adam Horne trilogy, following
The Bombay Marines
and
The War Chest
, Captain Horne is ordered to follow a trail into the perilous waters of the China Seas in pursuit of George Fanshawe, who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances with gold from the East India Company’s coffers and valuable charts detailing the trading routes for the burgeoning trade with China. Horne is given the order, find Fanshaw, and soon!
Horne sails eastward in search of the elusive merchant through seas infested with pirates and the hostile Chinese.