Seahawk Burning
by Randall Peffer
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“The gripping final volume of Peffer’s Civil War at Sea trilogy…[his] heady mix of history and fiction brings to life a neglected segment of the Civil War.”
—Publishers Weekly
DESCRIPTION
This final volume in the Raphael Semmes trilogy of Civil War naval thrillers, Seahawk Burning, follows the real-life adventures of Confederate Captain Raphael Semmes and his ship, the C.S.S. Alabama, on the final legs of their reign of terror on the high seas. The novel chronicles Semmes’s rise to mythic stature as he becomes Lincoln’s public enemy number one, seizing and burning scores of Yankee ships in the Caribbean Sea, the south Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, and the South China Sea before heading to France for sanctuary…all the while dodging scores of federal Navy ships pursuing him.
Enemy vessels, spy games, mutinies, storms, and loneliness stock Semmes’s cruise during 1863-64. Meanwhile, back in the Lincoln White House, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles tries to marshal his warships to catch Semmes and simultaneously protect his president from spies and assassins, one of whom is Semmes’s mistress.
PRAISE
“The gripping final volume of Peffer’s Civil War at Sea trilogy (after 2010′s Seahawk Hunting) follows three entwined stories. Peffer’s heady mix of history and fiction brings to life a neglected segment of the Civil War.”
—Publishers Weekly
ALSO BY RANDALL PEFFER
- Seahawk Hunting (Seahawk trilogy #2)
- Southern Seahawk (Seahawk trilogy #1)
- Screams & Whispers (Cape Islands Mystery #5)
- Listen to the Dead (Cape Islands Mystery #4)
- Bangkok Dragons, Cape Cod Tears (Cape Islands Mystery #3)
- Old School Bones (Cape Islands Mystery #2)
- Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues (Cape Islands Mystery #1)