October 1991. It was “the perfect storm”—a tempest that may happen only once in a century—a nor’easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120...
Ranked as a captain, the youngest in His Majesty's navy and one with a reputation for landing impossible assignments, Lord Ramage is dispatched to the Caribbean isle of Martinique and, off its southwest coast, Diamond Rock. His mission at first...
The second book in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series.
Midshipman Drinkwater is back in the Navy in 1792, appointed to the 12-gun cutter Kestral. Off the French coast, the Kestral becomes involved in the secret and dangerous adventures linked...
1800 — Der Krieg England gegen Napoleon droht auf Dänemark überzugreifen. Konteradmiral Richard Bolitho operiert deshalb mit seinem Geschwader in der Ostsee, und zwar zugleich gegen Dänen, Russen und Franzosen. Besonders die...