Another great Ramage novel. True, the Captain seems to be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound unlike Bolitho, Hornblower, Kidd, or Lewrie, but all of his books have been well written and hard to put down. I'm just sorry to see the end of the series in sight. If I had to write anything e...
This is the fourth book in the Lord Ramage series. Ramage is in command of the brig HMS Triton. They have been assigned to escort a trade convoy across the Caribbean from Barbados to Jamaica, along with several frigates and the Admiral’s flagship.Pope lets fly with the action and political intr...
For some reason I'm nuts for fiction about the Royal Navy during Napoleonic times. Ramage books are, of course, of that genre and this being the 14th book of the series you'd think it was getting old by now but I have to say I felt this was the most enjoyable Ramage in a long long while. Tensio...
Well, OK, 1'm sorry. I apologize to Dudley Pope. I had said some rather unkind things about one of his Ramage novels, based on an audiotape. To be fair I read another, Ramage and the Freebooters, and it's really quite entertaining. As with the C.S. Forester, Alexander Kent, and O'Brian series, th...