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Little.Egret · 04-12-2015, 09:02 AM

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The Lion's Claw by Peter Padfield

This novel by one of Britain's leading naval historians introduces Lieutenant Guy Greville, intelligence officer of Her Majesty's corvette Dulcinea off east Africa in the final decade of the nineteenth century.

The Royal Navy is attempting to end the trade in Africans driven across the continent and shipped from the east coast up to the Red Sea and Persian Gulf for the slave markets of the Middle East. But chests of modern arms found in one intercepted dhow draw the Dulcinea into great power intrigue.

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Peter Padfield is a leading naval historian and biographer.

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Little.Egret Wizard Posts: 3,168 Karma: 37800000 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK Device: Kindle Keyboard 3G, Kindle Fire 2, NOOK ST, Kindle HDX, Fire 7"	Thistle reprint The Lion's Claw by Peter Padfield This novel by one of Britain's leading naval historians introduces Lieutenant Guy Greville, intelligence officer of Her Majesty's corvette Dulcinea off east Africa in the final decade of the nineteenth century. The Royal Navy is attempting to end the trade in Africans driven across the continent and shipped from the east coast up to the Red Sea and Persian Gulf for the slave markets of the Middle East. But chests of modern arms found in one intercepted dhow draw the Dulcinea into great power intrigue. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00R7R9BBS/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00R7R9BBS/ http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00R7R9BBS/ Peter Padfield is a leading naval historian and biographer.