Adventures of Charles Hayden Take, Burn or Destroy, Book 2, (Paperback)

from JoK

With 'Take, Burn, or Destroy', Russell masterfully delivers the slow burn and building suspense associated with the sea-chase in the Age of Sail. As a fan of historical naval fiction, I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, and was sad to find (to the credit of the author) that I will have to find concl...

from stevesmits

Fans of the Patrick O'Brien will wonder if any seafaring fiction can match his masterful work. Probably nothing can, but this novel is good and an enjoyable read. Charles Hayden is the ship's commander at the onset of the war with the French. Hayden's mission goes awry and he is captured by the e...

from cuicocha

S. Thomas Russell continues the adventures of Charles Hayden in this third novel of sea adventure in the glorious British Age of Sail. As in the first two novels, the author displays depth of knowledge of sea faring in this historical time period and writes with great self assurance. Unlike the f...

from LMHTWB

This was an ER book and the third in S. Thomas Russell's Hayden Series, which are Napoleonic era naval novels. And like the previous two, it's different from many other Age of Sail series because, while there is some on-ship descriptions and a few action scenes, a lot of the book is not about eit...

from JeffV

The search for the next Jack Aubrey or Horatio Hornblower continues. I haven't yet read the first two books in this series, so some moments in the book have more back-story than is conveyed in this book. Unfortunately, most of the moments I suspect would be dull as dishwater regardless. Hayden se...