Tested by Fate (37 page)
Authors: David Donachie
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was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an abiding interest in the naval history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as the Roman Republic, and, under the pen-name of Jack Ludlow, has published a number of historical adventure novels. David lives in Deal with his partner, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook.
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First published in Great Britain in 2000.
This ebook edition published by Allison & Busby in 2013.
Copyright © 2000 by D
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The moral right of the author is hereby asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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ISBN 978–0–7490–1544–2
