Gloriana's Torch

by Patricia Finney

  For children

  I, Jack

  Jack and Police Dog Rebel

  More information on www.patricia-finney.co.uk

  GLORIANA’S TORCH. Copyright © 2003 by Patricia Finney. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Finney, Patricia, 1958–

  Gloriana’s torch / Patricia Finney.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 0-312-31285-7 (hc)

  ISBN 0-312-31286-5 (pbk)

  EAN 978-0312-31286-2

  1. Great Britain—History, Naval—Tudors, 1485–1603—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—History—Elizabeth, 1558–1603—Fiction. 3. Illegal arms transfer—Fiction. 4. Armada, 1588—Fiction. I. Title.

  PR6056.I519G58 2003

  823'.914—dc22

  2003058454

  First published in Great Britain by Orion, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd.

  First St. Martin’s Griffin Edition: November 2004

  eISBN 9781466853188

  First eBook edition: August 2013