A solitary British destroyer fights a German U-boat in the remote expanses of the South Atlantic in WW II.
Patrolling at night, alone in a far reach of the Atlantic, the destroyer Hecate's radar picked up a small echo. Was it a fishing boat,...
Few cities in this world have known the glory of the West Indies' fabled Port Royal, and fewer still have faded so deep into oblivion. In the seventeenth century the glittering, wicked Jamaican port was the "jewel of the Caribbean," the first city...
Richard and Robin Mariner are thrust into danger as they enter the dark heart of West Africa…
Having helped the President of a powerful West African nation take control of the country, Richard and Robin Mariner are now among a select group of...
1808. With the Peninsula in turmoil, Napoleon Bonaparte signs a treaty to dismember Portugal and put his brother, Joseph, on the throne of Spain. Meanwhile, Nicholas Renzi, the Lord Farndon, undertakes a deadly mission to stir up partisan unrest to...
Captain Gilbert Anthony has a lot on his mind. He has just been decorated for extraordinary bravery under fire, been given command of the fourth-rate Drakkar, learned from his father's deathbed that he as a fully grown illegitimate brother, and will...
In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under...