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I colori del nemico: romanzo (2007)

di S. Thomas Russell

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At the time of the French Revolution, one of Britain's most skillful naval officers is young lieutenant Charles Saunders Hayden, the son of an English father and a French mother. His abilities and his loyalty to the king of England are beyond dispute, but his career seems doomed by his "mixed" heritage and lack of political connections. Consequently, Hayden is assigned to an aging frigate, the Themis, under the command of Captain Josiah Hart, a man known throughout the service as "Faint Hart."

As the Themis takes to sea, the disaffection of the crew boils over into violence, and the lieutenant is caught between his superior and a crew pushed toward mutiny. A revolution at sea ensues, and Hayden is wrenchingly torn between honor and duty, as the magnificent Royal Navy engages the French in a centuries-old struggle for power.

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Corre el año 1793 y los primeros compases de las guerras napoleónicas inauguran la época más gloriosa de la Armada británica. El mar se ha convertido en el principal campo de batalla entre Gran Bretaña y Francia, en una contienda en la que está en juego la vigencia del viejo orden establecido frente a las nuevas ideas revolucionarias.
Sin perspectivas de ascenso, el joven oficial Charles Saunders Hayden, de madre francesa, se ve obligado a aceptar una complicada misión a bordo de la fragata H.M.S. Themis, cuyo capitán, sospechoso de pusilanimidad a la hora de hostigar a los buques franceses, resulta ser un déspota aficionado al ron y al látigo.
Así pues, a bordo de una nave descuidada, con una tripulación resentida y al borde del amotinamiento, Hayden tendrá que demostrar mucho más que sus grandes dotes de marino para no verse arrastrado por las circunstancias.
  Natt90 | Mar 17, 2023 |
This is the first in a series featuring Lt. Charles Hayden of the Royal Navy. With a French mother and an English father, Hayden sometimes finds himself feeling conflicted when he is forced to consider the French as his enemy. But this is the late 1700s, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, and there's no room for sitting on the fence. Hayden is sent to be a first lieutenant on a ship commanded by Captain Josiah Hart, known as "Faint Hart" for his cowardice and manoeuvring to avoid actual conflict on the seas. The crew is on the brink of mutiny. What will happen on their voyage?

Overall, I enjoyed this book. It is a thick book but goes by relatively quickly for its size. It's stuffed with sailing terms that I probably only half understood, but that did not hamper my enjoyment of the story. Toward the end of the book, I couldn't put it down as I had to find out (and couldn't guess) what would happen when the crew of Hart's ship finally returned and the tales of their voyage reached the ears of the Admiralty. Would they finally kick him out of the service, or would the accounts of the crew be disregarded and the captain covered in glory? With this aspect of the story, I strangely found it applicable in a modern sense to anyone who's ever worked in a toxic workplace, where the manager doesn't inspire loyalty in the employees, and the employees are disheartened and resentful and just go through the motions while trying to find some way to quit.

One glaring error I noticed was when Hayden was using his French and gave the order "A tribord!" The footnote translated this as "to larboard", which is actually PORT. "Tribord" is STARBOARD. I'm not sure where the error lies, but if the footnote is supposed to be correct, the French should be "bâbord". And this sort of mistake is probably part of what led the Royal Navy to change the term "larboard" to "port". That was the only really obvious thing that jumped out at me. It did, however, rattle me sufficiently to wonder whether I should drop the rating from a 4 to a 3.5. But the highly suspenseful conclusion to the book (which also felt fair and realistic) persuaded me to stick with the original rating. ( )
  rabbitprincess | Apr 3, 2016 |
I gave this a good 30 pages or so before I stopped. It started out well on the ship but once it moved to land to take up the life of the main character, it slowed quite a bit. The first activites of the main chacter were interesting enough but then it settled into a parlor and his fascination with a particular woman. The dialog did me in. It was a gabby kind of dialog intended to reveal the backstories of the main character and what I assumed would be his love interest. It is in my mind a very weak way to introduce backstory. It also was overdone, went on too long, etc. So I stopped reading. I was looking forward to this work very much as it had been recommended to me and I am interested in nautical novels in this historic timeframe but it wasn't written in a style that I could tolerate. ( )
  Laine-Cunningham | Feb 22, 2015 |
My first nautical novel since my reading Hornblower novels and Bounty Trilogy of years past. This one engaged my interest all through. The hero, Charles Hayden, of mixed parentage [French mother, English father] is assigned as first lieutenant to the Themis, under the tyrannical and "shy" [read cowardly] Captain Hart. I took Hart as sort of a mixture of Bligh and Queeg, with his own peculiarities. The men are mutinous. Charles must contend with his captain and crew. There's much action between the French and the English; England is trying to keep the revolutionary ideas from spreading to England. As well as the captain's ill treatment of the crew, Tom Paine's "seditious" pamphlets are the sources of discontent onboard ship, although the bad feeling had begun before Hayden had entered the story: with a murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a severe beating.

Hayden proves his resourcefulness and mettle in taking a French prize, but back in England along with mutineers of the Themis faces court martial--Hayden for alleged dereliction of duty and disobeying captain's orders. The book was well done and delivered just the right amount of excitement. There was overemphasis on how Hayden's mixed background had hampered him in advancement. I would have liked a glossary of nautical terms, for us landlubbers. This is the first novel in a promising series. ( )
  janerawoof | Jan 3, 2015 |
I purchased this book sometime ago, and had not gotten around to reading it. Then I won the 3rd book in the series, and so went searching for this first book.

I have done myself a disservice by not reading it earlier. It is a wonderful story, and though I find a few faults, Charles Hayden, our hero, is a taut-hand as other writers talk of their heroes in the Nautical Fiction genre.

Hayden in the hands of Russell proves his worth time and again, and even the interlude of being sent into the enemy lands of France, is handled much better than the many who seek to make their characters spies extraordinary for Lord Castlereagh.

I did mention faults and the first is the character and how often we visit the heritage of our hero. His mother was French and now in America. That he would be held back because of this is allowable, but Russell dwells on this far too many times. The second is that there is so much action, sometimes there is too much in the way of nautical nomenclature that it gets in the way of the tale. It may give us the feel of the piece, at sea in a Frigate, but there is sometimes so much that your eyes glaze waiting for the next bit of action.

Last, the lead up to the climax runs to many pages and often there is repetition that we do not need having seen the events, even should the characters be bringing each other up to speed about the event.

Could possibly be a reread and should Russell take the effort to increase the amount he releases, may rival Stockwin and Lambdin for excitement. ( )
  DWWilkin | May 9, 2013 |
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Fiction. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:

At the time of the French Revolution, one of Britain's most skillful naval officers is young lieutenant Charles Saunders Hayden, the son of an English father and a French mother. His abilities and his loyalty to the king of England are beyond dispute, but his career seems doomed by his "mixed" heritage and lack of political connections. Consequently, Hayden is assigned to an aging frigate, the Themis, under the command of Captain Josiah Hart, a man known throughout the service as "Faint Hart."

As the Themis takes to sea, the disaffection of the crew boils over into violence, and the lieutenant is caught between his superior and a crew pushed toward mutiny. A revolution at sea ensues, and Hayden is wrenchingly torn between honor and duty, as the magnificent Royal Navy engages the French in a centuries-old struggle for power.

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