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Alexander Kent

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Alexander Kent is the pseudonym of the British novelist Douglas Edward Reeman. Reeman's debut novel, A Prayer for the Ship was published in 1958. Writing under the name Kent, this author is most famous for his series of Napoleonic Naval Stories, whose central character is Richard Bolitho.