A Desperate Voyage

A Desperate Voyage is a book by E. F. Knight. Knight was an English lawyer, soldier, columnist, and author of 20 books, many based on his reports as a war reporter. Excerpt: «It is no pleasant task to describe the events that now took place on the French barque. This is no tale of daring buccaneers, of exciting hand-to-hand combats of desperate men; but a narrative of cold-blooded and dastardly crime. Now that the time for carrying out his devilish scheme had come, Baptiste had taken the lead of the conspirators. Being a pacific person who hated fighting and feared danger, he determined to omit no... Edasi