Balkan Glory: Collectors Set

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I’ll be offering a Special Collector’s Set of my next book, Balkan Glory. This will comprise a signed, numbered and embossed UK First Edition and a signed cover postcard. The Set is strictly limited to 500. To add your name to the list email admin@julianstockwin.com with your full details, including postal address. The Set, inclusive of p&p, is £29.99 for delivery to addresses within the UK and Europe; £39.99 for delivery to addresses in the rest of the world.

If you pre-pay, you’ll go into the hat for a full refund of your purchase price! This offer is valid until March 15. The book is published on October 1 and we’ll get the Collectors Sets out shortly before that date.

Don’t delay to avoid disappointment!

To whet your appetite:

1811. The Adriatic, the ‘French Lake’, is now the most valuable sea territory Napoleon Bonaparte possesses. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd finds his glorious return to England is cut short when the Admiralty summons him to lead a squadron of frigates into these waters to cause havoc and distress to the enemy.

Kydd is dubbed ‘The Sea Devil’ by Bonaparte who personally appoints one of his sea heroes, Dubourdieu, along with a fleet that greatly outweighs the British, to rid him of this menace.

At the same time Persephone, Lady Kydd insists on accompanying her husband to Sicily and finds herself caught up in complex palace intrigues that threatens Britain’s slender position there.

Meanwhile, Nicholas Renzi is sent to Austria on a secret mission to plumb the mind of the devious arch-statesman, Count Metternich. Will the Austrians secretly stay staunch against the French? He discovers the truth and with it a deadly plan by Bonaparte that threatens the whole balance of power in Europe.

The only thing that can stop it is a decisive move at sea and for this he must somehow cross the Alps to the Adriatic to contact Kydd directly.

All things converge in a final climactic sea battle of the classic Nelson kind where the stakes could not be higher. Against impossible odds Kydd faces Dubourdieu and decisively shatters Bonaparte’s dreams of breaking out of Europe and marching to the gates of India and Asia.

4 Comments on “Balkan Glory: Collectors Set”

  1. Aha Julian, you did actually do an Adriatic book!!! I remember asking you in FaceBook 2 or 3 years ago if you could do one! Brilliant! when will this be Published and how do we join the Special Edition draw and when?

  2. Looking forward to the next chapter in Tom’s career. Many thanks Dave Lambert 

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