An Instrument of War

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

It is August 1863 and the Confederate Navy Cruiser Palmetto escapes from Charleston harbour to resume her career as a raider, hunting the shipping of the United States. The succeeding months see her range the Atlantic Ocean before facing a wild passage of Cape Horn, as her Captain Thomas Grover steers his ship for the Orient, seeking ever more victims in his mission to cripple the overseas commerce of the enemy.

Martin Hicks lives in Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire Scotland and began writing after a career in education. An Instrument of War, the sequel to Palmetto, is his tenth book, all of them set in the war of 1861-65. He is currently working on the third and final book of the Palmetto series.

By the same author:

A Gathering of Soldiers

Hard Passage North

The Rappahannock Line

Mirage of Victory

The Bitterest Enemy

A Season for Killing

A Deepening Twilight

Bond of Blood

Palmetto