Diamond

About the Book

Diamond -- A novel of the American Revolution Seth Morse hated the English warships patrolling southern New England, menacing daily life, levying taxes, seizing what they want, imposing their will. He signs onto an armed privateer schooner to fight the English occupiers. The schooner is quickly defeated by a vastly superior English frigate. Along with a few other survivors, Seth is tossed into an unlit hold and transported to prison in England. Diamond narrates Seth's harrowing nautical challenges, the utter misery of imprisonment and the profound joy of release. Soon thereafter he experiences the terrifying violence of pitched sea battles, one of which helps to turn the tide of a new nation's fortune. Finally sailing home he unexpectedly falls in love, only to confront a profound risk of losing it as he nears home and family.

About the Author

Diamond is Paul F. Hammond's fourth historical novel. Mr. Hammond has enjoyed a lifetime of studying, reading and writing about American History. After a lengthy business career, he retired as a senior officer and principal of a national market research firm. He and his wife, Paige, live in Connecticut and the Bahamas. His three other historical novels include Interference!, a time travel adventure to British-occupied Newport, Rhode Island during the American Revolution; Isaac Rules, an account of a young first mate's survival on a nineteenth-century schooner facing piracy, a terrifying hurricane, weeks adrift at sea, and a profound test of faith; and The Saboteur, an account of a university student who escapes a World War I German U-boat during an attack on a small Cape Cod town, only to be confronted by poisonous anti-German sentiments and hunted by fanatical vigilantes.