Authors: David Donachie
Tested by Fate (37 page)
D
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ONACHIE
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.
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D
ONACHIE
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