Touch and Go Author:Cyril Northcote Parkinson As the 18th century slips into the 19th, England is still at war with France. Richard Delancey newly promoted to captain, arrives in the Mediterranean to command a small sloop-of-war and sails into a series of do-or-die adventures which leaves the enemy reeling. Delancey seizes a French frigate, saves a pretty Christian girl from the horro... more »rs of the Arab slave market---and charges headlong into thundering sea battles. Capturing glory and prize money along the way, he molds his shipmates into what is, man for man, the best seagoing crew in the Royal British Navy.« less