Jacob Fletcher is beset by treachery at every turn of the ship\'s wheel at sea and with every step on dry land.
He is married with a son and two grandchildren..
John\'s hobby is muzzle-loading shooting, and his interests are British history and British politics (as a spectator), plus newspapers, TV news, and current affairs.
His working career was in the television department of ICI until 1999 when he became a full-time writer.
John Drake trained as a biochemist to post-doctorate research level before realizing he was no good at science.
Any favorable comparison to Stevenson or Patrick O\'Brian is totally justified.\' - Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author. [...] John Drake writes beautifully, and you\'ll be torn between savoring the words and quickly flipping the pages. the genre has room for this cheerily debunking outsider\' - Daily Mail \'Swashbuckling adventure on the high seas doesn\'t get much better than this.
Praise for John Drake : \'Broad comedy, high drama, plenty of action, a pinch of sex ...
From boisterous Georgian London to the exotic east, Fletcher and the Samurai is the fifth instalment of the swashbuckling Fletcher Series.
Fighting free of a deadly trap in India, Fletcher reaches Japan with Masahito as the Samurai war begins...
His adventure soon tangles with that of the young Samurai lord Masahito, sent to England to get western cannons and muskets for an imminent Japanese civil war.
Fletcher is ordered by Lord Spencer, the First Sea Lord, to stop Kilbride by any means necessary.
The Company already owns India, and under the charismatic Director Kilbride, it wants to invade Japan and be independent of England.
Fletcher is sent halfway round the world aboard the frigate Euphonides to fight not the French nor the Spanish, but the British East India Company. 1797.
Jacob Fletcher is beset by treachery at every turn of the ship\'s wheel at sea and with every step on dry land
