The Blighted Cliffs

I am a a lover of all maritime and Napoleonic wars fiction and I have to say, although this first installment in the series is a bit lighter and not as serious as many others, this is truly a delightful romp and nothing but swashbuckling fun. This book has everything you need for jolly good entertainment. Action, adventure, romance, espionage, intrigue, mystery, mischief and mayhem. Buckle up and enjoy the ride. !! Wonderful real believable characters, a hero you just have to love with all his charm, failures and flaws, a story you can't put down from page one to the end. Bravo for Edwin Thomas

Entertaining story of cowardice, incompetence and daring-do in Dover at the time of the Napoleonic War.
Lieutenant Martin Jerrold arrives in Dover in total disgrace and shortly thereafter, finds himself charged with murder, but then discharged, through lack of evidence, but still under suspicion.
His uncle, in the Admiralty, gives him two weeks to clear his name or he will be sent to the Indies, there to die of whatever ghastly fever he picks up.
The locals, deeply in with all the smugglers, aren't willing to give out any information they may have to an officer of the King's navy and his fellow officers keep him under short rein in case of his possible treacherous inclinations.
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Very enjoyable book! Lieutenant Martin Jerrold bungles his way through one misadventure after another, in a likeable sort of way, and manages to come out the other end a hero, AND get the girl! This book is lighter than the likes of Patrick O'Brian, but seems to be well-researched. It is nearly impossible to believe it was written by someone so young! Edwin Thomas has a future ahead of him.

Good first book in the series. Held your interest enough to finish. Weak willed but occasionally capable hero with a penchant for stumbling over or falling into difficulties personal and service related.

Flashmanesque hero in Regency England (Lieutenant Martin Jerrold) serves the Crown and his id. Very good "debut" (I suspect the author of writing under a pseudonym) novel. Haven't seen it in America though.