Download or read book A Ship of War written by Sean Thomas Russell and published by Penguin Export. This book was released on 2012 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Charles Hayden has orders to destroy a French frigate sailing from Le Havre and to gather intelligence from a royalist spy. On discovering French plans for an imminent attack on British soil, Hayden must return to Portsmouth to give warning before it is too late. But the enemy have been lying in wait for him, and so begins a dangerous chase out into the Atlantic and into the midst of a French squadron.