Tyger
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The 16th volume in the popular high-seas nautical adventure series featuring naval hero Thomas Kydd. The greatest naval trial in the Georgian period is underway at Portsmouth with the court-martial of Sir Home Popham, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd’s commanding officer in the doomed occupation of Buenos Aires. Kydd has sympathy for Popham’s unauthorized action but his support for his former commander leaves him athwart some very influential people in the Admiralty.
With his frigate L'Aurore unfit for sea, Kydd is given a new commission that his rivals hope will destroy his career. The Tyger's have recently mutinied, but instead of dispersing her company around the fleet as is customary, the ship is pressed into immediate service in the North Sea and Kydd faces a crew still under some malign influence. Enemies aboard and on the high seas are just the start of the problem. Soon he will have to take his untested and untrustworthy crew into the Baltic, where they will find themselves entangled with Napoleon’s invasion of Prussia. The stakes are desperate, the task seemingly impossible, and the French implacable. The only way for Kydd to avoid disgrace is to gamble his reputation and crew on a crazy mission to snatch a Prussian division out of the jaws of Napoleon’s advancing army. Will he return home once more a hero or face a court-martial himself?
Julian Stockwin
Julian Stockwin is the internationally bestselling author of Kydd, Artemis, Seaflower, and Mutiny, the first four novels in the Kydd adventure series. Having joined the Royal Navy at age fifteen, he retired from the Royal Naval Reserve as a lieutenant commander and was awarded the Member of the British Empire (MBE). He and his wife live in Devon, England. Visit the author's website at JulianStockwin.com.
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Reviews for Tyger
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good book for the ones who like swashbuckling, maritime history. It is slow at times but I still liked it. It is a good Naval history fiction about how dangerous life was and the adventures of Kydd brings this to bear on how bad things can be. This is fiction but you get caught up in it and brings the way things could have been at this time and at sea.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Julian Stockwin has taken a few skeins of naval history and woven them into an interesting part of his fictional hero Kydd's career. We travel to the Arctic, interdict some illegal fur trade and for an encore; assist a Prussian Army to escape from Napolean's encirclement. A rousing sea battle against Prussian ships manned by the French by the former ship of mutiny, HMS Tyger concludes this iexciting and enlightening episode of a very good series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kydd is somewhat like Aubrey, when he is on land he should really learn to keep his mouth shut. While in London the brave sea capital manages to flap off his mouth three sheets to the wind and runs afoul of the Admiralty. His punishment is command of a frigate with a mutinous crew. A variety of unsavory missions to the Baltic and even the Arctic follow, with threat of loss of command altogether. Hard to distinguish oneself while running in a blockade fleet. But a harrowing sea battle with nonstop action finally comes and he has won the hearts and minds of his crew, and is restored to good graces politically, as the public love of a hero trumps even curmudgeonly old Admirals. Recommended for lovers of the Age of Sail genre. But Kydd really needs a Mautrin to round out his personality.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a fantastic selection! While I have read other nautical adventure stories (Horatio Hornblower, Aubrey / Maturin, etc.), this was my first foray into the Kidd series, and I was not disappointed. It contained a great mixture of flight-of-fancy and realism, with exactly the right degree of technical detail to keep the story flowing while making the action visceral for the reader. As others have noted, the one downside was that, without having read the others in the series, I felt like I was "missing something" every time Kidd's previous adventures were mentioned (which, unfortunately, was a rather frequent occurrence). That being said, I feel it is my duty to pursue the other volumes in the series posthaste!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5(McBooks and Library Thing Earl;y Reviewers advance copy for review.) This is my second Captain Kidd nautical fiction and I'm hooked! (Pasha was OK but lacked the action I expected...) Tyger--Thomas Kidd #16 had all the intrigue, battles, storms, and British naval history that make for a first-rate nautical yarn. I just ordered a half-dozen other books by Julian Stockwin! Strongly recommend reading the series if you are a fan of Forester and O'Brian!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5(Full Disclosure: Lime Spouse read and reviewed this book for Early Reviewers.)Tyger introduces readers to little known facts about the Napoleonic War. The action in this novel mainly takes place along the Baltic coast, where Captain Kydd and his crew sail Tyger and attempt to forge a unified fighting force.If you've read previous books in this series, you'll already be familiar with some characters and background events. While book #16 can stand on its own, it's probably advisable to read the novels in order to appreciate the growth and development of Kydd and other recurring characters.The action of naval battles is balanced by political machinations ashore and the story is flavored with the manners, speech, and historical events that seem period true.Readers of Patrick O'Brian's British Navy tall ship stories of the same period, featuring the heroes Aubrey and Maturin, might find Stockwin's characters less multidimensional. Still, Tyger: Thomas Kydd 16 is another fine addition to the store of 18th C maritime fiction for aficionados of British Naval history and adventure on the high seas.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5While there are a wealth of earlier books about Sir Thomas, this book can be enjoyed by readers with no previous awareness of the lead character's exploits. It is highly recommended for lovers of action novels and the Age of Sail genre.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A continuation of the fascinating adventures of Sir Thomas Kydd. Only this tie has ill-advisedly spoken his mind about the actions of the Lords Admiralty in confidence to a friend. Overheard by a scurrilous newspaperman (but I am redundant) who prints the conversation to Kydd's harm. As a result he loses the promised frigate abuilding and is assigned as Captain to the mutiny infected Tyger. The story builds suspense as Sir Thomas works to build a good crew and claim the Tyger as true defender of England.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This nautical novel set in the Napoleonic era was an outstanding example of its genre and a worthy successor to the Hornblower novels. Sir Thomas Kydd, lately captain of the L'Aurore, a French prize, is slated to captain a new frigate being built. An unscrupulous newspaper reporter surreptitiously overhears Kydd in confidential conversation with a friend about the outcome of a court-martial and has printed distortions, which outrage the Admiralty. The Admiralty "punishes" Kydd by his transfer instead to captaincy of a ship on which a mutiny recently had taken place, HMS Tyger. Kydd is tasked with turning the situation around and winning the trust and loyalty of the still-discontented crew. A fifth columnist is rooted out, then Kydd is sent ostensibly to see possible French strength in the Baltic. He determines if Archangel in Russia would be an alternative port if something would happen to St. Petersburg. He deals with a fur-smuggling ring and there is an exciting climactic battle with the French in captured Prussian ships.The novel's strong points were the story--non-stop action--and a sympathetic and shrewd Kydd. I got a taste of shipboard life; I'm glad there were no floggings. Pacing was excellent and descriptions vivid, especially those of the Arctic. Glossary was valuable for nautical terms and slang but could have been more complete. I wish the novel had included a line drawing of a British frigate of that period, with parts labeled, to help me visualize better. Now I'm eager to read the rest of the series from the beginning.Highly recommended.Thanks to LibraryThing for sending me this novel as part of the Early Reviewer program. The opinions are my own honest ones.