Lose the wife please..

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	• Any Approaching Enemy: A Novel of the Napoleonic Wars Jay Worrall Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Lose the wife please..

The start of this book was amazing. The level of details and the authors ability to make you be there in the storm was great reading. Some wonderful comic moments between Bevin and Edgemont and others. The story flowed so well. A wonderful start to the book and I found it hard to put down and take a break. That is until Captain Edgemont found his wife in the middle of the Mediterranean.

It is inconceivable that 2 women traveling together would manage to get into the Mediterranean and eventually end up finding her husband's ship. Then, for the Captain to even allow her on board whilst being in very hostile waters. The book took a huge turn for the worse when we find Penny battering her husband (the captain) to stop firing as he is destroying a French ship. Even when Captain Edgemont comes to her rescue and saves her, she still is not happy about the fighting.

The way Edgemont handles his first officer is laughable. Getting his friend Commander Bevin to delay sailing with dispatches so he can help repair Louisa would find all of them hanged. Just when I thought things would get better with the packing off of his wife, we then have some silly action at the end with Edgemont being the one responsible for blowing up the French Flag Ship and killing 1000 sailors.

With Edgemont now on his way back to England, you just know the first part of the 3rd book will see more of his wife. I just hope the author leaves her behind early in the book.

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Texas John

Mr. Worrall is, in my mind, equal to Patrick O'Brian and even Julian Stockwin. It is refreshing to read about the good old US of A for a change.

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Disappointing

I found this sequel to be quite disappointing. In fact it turned Charles Edgemont into a henpecked husband who allowed his wife to become "The Captain." I have nothing against strong women, but one who travels such a great distance in time of war just so she can conceive is ludicrous. I read these type of stories for the action at sea and this book let me down.Also I found the introduction of Aubrey and Hornblower (plus his own family name) to be disingenous. And why not Richard Bolitho while he was at it? Maybe he's being saved for another sequel. Stick to the war, Mr. Worrall, and let Penny be strong at home where she can do some good, including the mill and her other improvements. It seemed to me that for an avowed Quaker, she certainly seemed to demonstrate a great deal of pride.

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Edgemont is Back

I enjoyed Worrall's first book and I can say that if you are a fan of Forrester and O'Brian then you will definetly like this book.This book has CPT Edgemont serving with Lord Nelson and doing his customary taking names and kicking butt.
So strap on your cutlass and pistols and prepare to board a French man of war.

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With the stunning high-seas adventure Sails on the Horizon, Jay Worrall introduced a bold new hero in the rousing tradition of Jack Aubrey: Charles Edgemont, an ambitious officer in His Britannic Majesty?s navy. Raised to the rank of captain for gallantry under fire, Edgemont proved his mettle in the bruising British victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of St. Vincent. Now married and in command of the twenty-eight-gun frigate Louisa, the young captain sails toward a day of destiny?for himself and for England.
The year is 1798. The war between England and revolutionary France has reached a bloody stalemate, with England in the ascendancy at sea and France unchallenged on the Continent, thanks in large part to an unorthodox twenty-eight-year-old general named Napoleon Bonaparte. But the French, secretly amassing a powerful fleet, mean to break the impasse.
When rumors of the French preparations leak, the Admiralty dispatches a squadron of seven ships?among them the Louisa?under the command of Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson to investigate. Blindsided by a storm of ferocious intensity, the ships scatter across the seas.
After the storm subsides, the damaged frigates limp back to the rendezvous point. But there is no sign of Nelson?s flagship, Vanguard, nor of two other ships of the line. Edgemont fears that the pugnacious rear admiral has pressed on with the mission.
Putting his career on the line by disobeying direct orders, Edgemont sets out in pursuit of Nelson and the French fleet on a treacherous voyage along the Tuscan coast. As tensions among the crew threaten to explode into open insubordination or worse, Edgemont makes an unexpected discovery in Naples that may seriously compromise his mission.
When the missing French fleet turns up off the shores of Egypt, conveying an army tens of thousands strong, Edgemont is suddenly thrown into a crisis of conscience. As circumstances grow dire and require heroic action, the fate of the crucial battle effectively lies in Edgemont?s hands?as does the course of history.

From the Hardcover edition.

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