By the Mast Divided Dune Until he notices the aeroplane

Until he notices the aeroplane flying dangerously low

author of The Last London

professional failures and personal dramas

his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning

By the Mast Divided Dune Until he notices the aeroplaneLondon, 1793: Young firebrand John Pearce, on the run from the authorities, is illegally press ganged from the Pelican Tavern into brutal life aboard HMS Brilliant, a frigate on its way to war. Shipboard life is hard, brutal, and dangerousthat anyone chooses it suggests that life ashore is even worse. But Pearce is not alone; he is drawn to a disparate group of men pressed alongside him who eventually form an exclusive gun crew, the Pelicans, with