The Admirals Game (John Pearce series Book 5)

The Admirals' Game

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    The Admirals' Game has ratings and 5 reviews. · Rating details · ratings · 5 reviews This is the fifth book in the John Pearce Pelican series. Editorial Reviews. Review. High adventure cunningly spliced battle scenes which reek of blood and brine. --Literary Review. About the Author. DAVID.

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    He, along with some of his comrades from the Pelican gang, gets placed on the HMS Brilliant, a British frigate sent on a voyage to fight the French. On board the frigate, John befriends several fellow crew members and again forms his Pelican gang with the objective of looking after one another. The ones like John Pearce are listed among the pressed ones and so form the lowest members on board the overcrowded ship. During the voyage, John Pearce goes on to shine as a natural leader as he helps to come out of difficult situations with the use of natural skills.

    Author Donachie began writing the series in the year and published its debut book in the following year. As of now, the book series is still going on as author Donachie is working to bring out a new book as a part of the series very soon. It was released in by the Allison and Busby publishers. At the start of the book, John Pearce is shown returning back to his homeland from Corsica after being pressed into the Royal Navy.

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    John Pearce is pissed at Captain Barclay because he is the one responsible for pressing him and his fellow comrades of the Pelican gang in the Navy. Barclay orders one of his patrons named Admiral Hotham to find a way out of this dilemma. Hotham goes on to staff the ship that John Pearce had captured and brought under control in Corsica.

    Admiral Hotham fills this ship with all those members of the Navy who refused to serve under the flag of Bourbon, including John Pearce. Later, Hotham hands the ship to Henry Digby. Henry transports the Pelicans and the renegade sailors of France to a port in the Atlantic so as to give them their freedom.

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    As John Pearce is moved out of his way, Admiral Hotham arranges a court martial in which Captain Barclay is declared innocent due to lack of eligible evidence. Because of this act of Barclay, a breach takes place between him and his beautiful wife named Emily Barclay. After some time, John Pearce makes a return back to the siege after surviving conflicts on both water and land.

    He learns that Captain Barclay has been acquitted of all the charges laid by him and that he has been exempted from any further trials as per the double jeopardy law.

    In order to teach Barclay a lesson and take his revenge from him, he begins to romance with his wife Emily Barclay. He is warned to stop doing it, but, he does not seem to care and continues to do so. In the background, the mayhem continues to mount as the revolutionary forces are getting closer to recapture the port and one among them is the ferocious Napoleon Bonaparte.

    Emergency evacuation takes place in Toulon in order to avoid the destruction of life and property on a larger scale.

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    The other supporting characters include the Pelican gang members. Donachie has set the plot against the backdrop of the French Revolution. At the start of the novel, it is shown that John Pearce has gone through a number of adversaries, since he was press ganged illegally to join the Navy of King George. Because of successfully overcoming all the adversaries, he secured a commanding position on board the HMS Faron.

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    Previously, John Pearce had overcome the attack of the French forces during the Toulon Siege with the help of his Pelican comrades. Now, he is facing a bloody battle in the on-going attempt to defend the overtaking of the port by the French naval forces. As all this is happening, his ongoing conflict with Ralph Barclay continues to intensify as Barclay is about to face another court martial to explain his actions. The future of Captain Ralp Barclay seems highly uncertain because his superiors, Admiral Hotham and Admiral Lord Hood are in a fight as they want to implement their own ways to deal with misgivings of Ralph Barclay.

    Also, Emily Barclay finds it very difficult to cope with the barbarous nature of her husband.