Pursuit of a long lost treasure leads to dangerous confrontation between Destiny and Spanish ship of the line. Bolitho falls in love with traitor's wife.

Plymouth, 1774. Richard Bolitho es ahora el tercer teniente de la fragata de ventiocho cañones Destiny. Atrás han quedado los días de aprendizaje como guardiamarina. Bolitho empieza a entender a quienes debe lealtad: a su capitán, a su barco y a Su Británica Majestad. Enviada a una misión secreta, la Destiny y su tripulación se enfrentan a los peligros de la conspiración, la traición y la piratería. Entre las andanadas de los cañones y el ruido de los sables, Bolitho aprende a ejercer sus responsabilidades como oficial del Rey.

Loved the Hornblower series and this is very much like it. Will read all the rest as I find them. ( )

I am a fan of naval fiction and plan on reading this series in chronological order. After completing the book I thought it was pretty good but after considering it for a while, I just think that Kent could have done much more to have developed the story. It's sort of like when you see a movie after reading a book, you think the book was always better because you had a much more detail and background to the story. This book feels as if it was the movie to some other better book. Suddenly at the end you are informed that there was a traitor within the midst of the ships company yet throughout the journey you were never led to believe that he existed. There was so much more that could have been done with that subplot. Yet time is devoted to a romantic subplot which is beyond unbelievable. Now that I write this, I think the book almost feels like it was a rough draft. It was OK as I like naval fiction but I'll continue to read the series with hopes that it gets better. ( )

I could not finish this book. Very stereotype wooden characters. Battle scenarios started poor and ended up to be ridiculous. A love scene totally unbelievable and superfluous to the story.

Enough said... I will not continue the series. ( )