Assigned to transport Raymond and his wife to remote S. Seas island outpost Bolitho confronts hostile natives and a pirate set on making the outpost his headquarters. He must take ship's boats 500 miles for help, then fight pirate. He loses Viola and nearly dies of fever in last battle.

Octubre de 1789. Nubes de guerra se ciernen sobre Europa mientras Richard Bolitho dirige la Tempest por las peligrosas aguas de los Mares del Sur. Su misión es proteger las débiles rutas de navegación inglesas de sus numerosos enemigos. Tiene que enfrentarse a los peligros de vientos contrarios, piratas e indígenas salvajes. Pero además le acechan otras amenazas. Los hombres de la Bounty se han amotinado en estas mismas aguas y desde la lejana Francia llegan noticias de una revolución.

Perhaps the most moving of all the Richard Bolitho books I've read. ( )

OCTOBER 1789, NEW SOUTH WALES. Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's ships employed in policing the new southern trade routes. Her captain is Richard Bolitho, who hopes to be ordered home to England.Instead he is despatched on a mission to the islands of the Great South Sea, where he must face hazards of fickle winds, pirates and savage islanders. But he is menaced by deeper fears; the men of the Bounty have mutinied in these same waters; and from distant Europe comes news of a revolution in France...

This is one of the two best this far into the series. I enjoyed the slightly darker tone. ( )