Blue Water: the Instant Times Bestseller (Laurence Jago)

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This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. G. MACLEAN'A FINE ADVENTURE REMINISCENT OF PATRICK O'BRIAN' - SUNDAY TIMESThis is the secret report of Laurence Jago. MACLEAN'A FINE ADVENTURE REMINISCENT OF PATRICK O'BRIAN' - SUNDAY TIMESThis is the secret report of Laurence Jago. And Grenville has also given him another task: to ensure that the important treaty Jay is carrying to the USA gets there safely.The latter are hugely entertaining, particulalrly in regards to the seamen and their myriad myths, legends and superstitions. Kaur’s first case is that of Tory MP and vocal climate-change denier Garfield Rice, found dead at his school reunion. And I have to say that I loved this about the crew, together with recognising some familiar-sounding names in their midst and wondering if Leonora Nattrass took her inspiration from fictional or real-life namesakes. It’s December 1794 and former government clerk Laurence Jago has just left Britain aboard the packet ship Tankerville.

Among their number is Jago, of course, along with his dog Mr Gibbs; journalist William Philpott; Theodore Jay, son of American envoy John Jay; his slave and valet Peter Williams; and War Office official Frederick Jenkinson. There were a few red herrings, which Nattrass focused on a bit too much, meaning the ultimate reveal felt a bit underwhelming. The second book in the Laurence Jago series sees the disgraced Foreign Office clerk on a mission to help deliver a treaty to Congress to prevent America from joining forces with France to wage war against Britain.

In Nattrass’s second historical political thriller, it’s 1794 and Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago, previously seen in the excellent Black Drop, finds himself aboard a mail ship heading for Philadelphia.

When the civil servant meets an unfortunate - and apparently accidental - end, the treaty disappears, and Laurence realises that only he can keep the Americans out of the war. A possible clue is hinted at very strongly in the beginning, but it’s not understood by the main character until very late in the book. Leonora Nattrass lectured on the literature and politics of the 18th century for almost ten years before running away to Cornwall, where she now lives in a seventeenth-century house with seventeenth-century draughts and knits the wool of her small flock of Ryeland sheep into complicated jumpers.

Blue Water is a mystery with sea salt running through its veins and the whiff of ozone and intrigue emanating from every page. He finds himself onboard the Tankerville, a mail ship headed for Philadelphia via Madeira and Barbados. It is his great chance to redeem himself—except that his predecessor has taken the secret of the treaty's hiding place to his watery grave. Bob Mortimer is the latest celebrity to follow a bestselling memoir with fiction, in this case a crime novel set in drab south-east London.