True Colours
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While Great Britain’s major home fleets are immobilised by a vicious mutiny, Adam Duncan, commander of the North Sea Squadron, has to maintain a constant watch over the Dutch coast, where a powerful invasion force is ready to take advantage of Britannia's weakest moment.
With ship-to-ship duels and fleet engagements, shipwrecks, storms and groundings, True Colours maintains a relentless pace that culminates in one of the most devastating sea battles of the French Revolutionary War—the Battle of Camperdown.
Alaric Bond has stepped into the first rank of writers of historic naval fiction.
The Third Book in the Fighting Sail Series
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Alaric Bond was born in Surrey, and now lives in Herstmonceux, East Sussex. Bond has been writing professionally for over twenty years with work covering broadcast comedy (commissioned to BBC Light Entertainment for 3 years), periodicals, children’s stories, television and the stage.
Bond now divides his time between writing and helping his wife run “Scolfe’s”, a traditional English Restaurant and Tea Rooms, housed in their 14th century Wealden Hall House home.
Other interests include the British Navy 1793-1815 and the RNVR during WW2. Bond regularly gives talks to groups and organizations and is a member of various historical societies. He is a keen collector of old or unusual musical instruments and 78 rpm records. Bond also enjoys sailing, classic cars, Jazz, swing and big-band music, and badgers.
