Cover of Take, Burn, or DestroyB
FinishedDecember 25, 2014
GradeB
GenreHistorical Fiction
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group, 2014
★ Review · December 25, 2014

Take, Burn, or Destroy

by S. Thomas Russell


The love story didn't add anything to this book. It's supposed to be about sailing and naval battles, but the love story got in the way.

Publisher Description

Master and Commander Charles Hayden returns in the riveting seafaring adventure by bestselling author S. Thomas Russell. In 1794, the French Revolution rages, and Charles Hayden sets off aboard the HMS Themis with orders to destroy a French frigate and to gather intelligence from a royalist spy. Upon discovering French plans for an imminent invasion of England, Hayden must return to Portsmouth to raise the alarm before it’s too late. But the enemy is laying in wait—and so begins a dangerous chase out into the Atlantic and into the clutches of a powerful French squadron. With no chance of fighting their way through, Hayden and his officers are taken prisoner. Shipwrecked in a storm on the French coast and mistaken for a French sea officer, Hayden must attempt a desperate escape to warn the Lords of the Admiralty. Failure will mean the invasion of England—and the guillotine for Hayden.

Where this fits · 2014 reading log
Book 38 of 2014 · the 1st Historical Fiction read of the year.