The Threat
In The Americas

Book Six of The Merriman Chronicles by Roger Burnage.

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The Threat in the Americas by Roger Burnage

Reviews of The Threat In The Americas

Success and Succession

"James achieves success again. Well written with a good plot. Excellent character development continued. The Admiralty and the Treasury are impressed and so was the East India Company. Merriment rewarded appropriately.

A quick read"

The British chasing pirates and money

"It's interesting to read how the Navy operated in those old days and particularly how much life was worth. Loved the day-to-day working routine and how the crew would enjoy their time ashore. Some things never change. An old matelot!"

Spirit and integrity Westminster is clearly missing

"A good and clear reminder that we did not inherit our past. We earned it. We perhaps did not deserve that success, because of our forefathers beligerous self belief"

Another fine story

"Sadly I have almost completed this wonderful series, each one has been enthralling through to the end

of the book"

Synopsis

In the year 1801 and Captain James Merriman aboard his ship Lord Stevenage is despatched to South America along with a small flotilla. A passenger by the name of George Humphries - part of the extensive network of English spies and agents controlled by a department of the Treasury – has orders for Merriman to seek out intelligence about England's enemies, particularly France and Spain.

Merriman and crew are also to try and find one Don Carlos Galiano whom he had narrowly missed capturing in the West Indies several years previously. Galiano is known to be behind smuggling and privateer activities in south Atlantic waters and is rumoured to be in Montevideo.

There are battles with a French frigate and a Spanish one with an assortment of privateers - little more than pirates - who prey on shipping of any nation in the south Atlantic.

But another secret purpose behind this voyage is to recover important documents and treasure from a wrecked Indiaman in Brazil, the location of which is unknown apart from some very incoherent details from the sole surviving crew member.

Can Merriman be successful in all that with the French, Spanish and even the native population is against him?