Take Burn or Destory

Take Burn or Destroy is listed as being the 4th Charles Hayden novel in Common Knowledge (and it's in the March 2013 ER batch), but I've a feeling it's an alternate title for the 3rd, otherwise called A Ship of War. TBoD is also only on the US Penguin site, but ASoW can be found on Amazon published by Penguin Import.

Can anyone who's seen A Ship of War confirm this? I haven't done any book merging so I don't want to do it on the fly. Since the author's website lists A Ship of War as the title and that version was published last year, I assume that would be the canonical title here?

You are correct.

Really interesting the spread on the reviews -- many 4 stars, a couple very low stars (1.5-2). I haven't finished reading my ER copy, so I haven't read the reviews (just glanced at the stars), but am now curious. Have these reviews read the other 2 books? If so, what do they think of the series in general?

I've not read any in the series, so I skimmed all reviews for TBD. There appears to be some hand-wringing about the amount of space devoted to the romance subplot (this was a clear complaint in several reviews, both 1-star and higher), and a bit of concern about dragging on even some of the non-romance action to unendurable length. This was true both for those who mentioned reading prior installments, and those who came to TBD as their first encounter with Charles Hayden.

I did go ahead and merge it, by the way.

I'm one of the "good lord, lady, get out of the way" reviewers. It's been awhile since I read the second book of the series, and I really liked the first, if I remembered. I mean, I'm fairly well versed in naval fiction at this point, and it was a little much. To be fair, I'd like to brain Hornblower a good chunk of the time in relation to his affairs with the fairer sex, so my patience for it is a little slim.