Naval Fiction

Peter Smith is at his breaking point. He is an impoverished boy who must overcome his humble beginnings, abduction, and mistreatment to find his path. Raised in poverty and hopelessness on the streets of Portsmouth, England, Peter is forced into a life of crime just to survive, he is snatched by an uncaring Naval officer against his will and pressed into service aboard a British warship. Young Peter, scarred by his abuse, struggles to find the will to live. As the winds of war sweep across the American colonies, Peter finds himself drawn into the fight on the side of the Americans. Fate ...

December 7, 1941 - America is attacked by the Japanese and dragged into a worldwide struggle for power unlike anything ever seen on Earth. While the United States and the Navy reel from the devastation of Pearl Harbor, the Nazis begin a brutal campaign within sight of the shores of the nation. U-boats prowl the American coast from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico, sinking shipping seemingly unopposed!

Art Turner and the crew of USS Bull Shark are about to become the spearhead in a new offensive in the Pacific. As an island nation, the Empire of Japan depends on the sea to maintain its vital supply chain… and it’s into this jugular that Admiral Nimitz intends to plunge his knife. On the other side of the world, Pat Jarvis is given command of his brand new submarine – the Megalodon. And like her sister, this new shark is being sent on a special mission. To find and sink a rogue Nazi spy ship commanding U-boat forces in the Caribbean.

This second edition is intended to improve the reading experience for non-sailors and young adults. The action moves faster and much of the archaic sailing terms have been removed. The saga of Neville Burton begins in 1792 when he and his friend Daniel Watson leave home to become Midshipmen in British Navy. Aboard HMS Castor, they live with the daily grind of naval discipline and begin to understand the awesome power and vagaries of the sea. Storms, calms, and the boom of thunder are the prelude to naval warfare in the Age of Sail. Convoy duty, blockades and battles loom as rungs on his ...

After a devastating attack by a downed Japanese aircraft, Art Turner and the men of Bull Shark try to forget and relax in the rustic Western Australian port of Fremantle. Yet war is never far away, and the battle cry once more draws the submarine into danger. Uncle Charlie Lockwood has a special side mission for Art Turner. A British commando needs to get to Timor and reunite with the Australian guerrilla fighters he’s trained… and who he was forced to leave behind when the Japanese invaded.

When Captain Guy Sherbrooke joins HMS Reliant in 1943, he knows he may be her last Captain. Sister battleships have been destroyed, and Sherbrooke cannot alter the bitter truth that there will be no half measures for HMS Reliant.

North America’s French and Indian War may be over, but at the end of 1760 the wider Seven Years War is still raging in Europe and across the seas of the world. Nevertheless, the New England merchants are growing restless at the restrictions on their trade with the French islands, and one Rhode Island company is determined to defy the law and bring home a cargo of contraband molasses.

Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of 13. In his nearly fifty years in the Navy Collingwood's service took him to Boston, where he lived and fought during the American War of Independence; to Antigua, where he and Nelson both fell in love with Mary Moutray; to Corsica; Sicily; and Menorca, where he ended his career as the effective viceroy of the Mediterranean.

The story of Jan's and Zofia's epic trek to reach besieged Toruń City completes with a battle to get through the berm gate. Meet General Amiya Constance, who forces Jan to face his inner Ulysses and marks him to lead the Exodus armies offworld, in exile. But he has to get there first, leave Genève on the Exodus fleet commanded by Magda Aklyan. The chances of making it to the farside jump zone, in the umbra of a blue-green gas giant called the Wasp, are slim to none. They must get past the enemy's orbital patrols, boost for the Wasp with larger numbers of enemy warships in hot pursuit, ...

Carrying out wartime patrols from Malta with the famous "Fighting Tenth" Submarine Flotilla, HM Submarine Rugged has orders to disrupt Axis supply convoys. Deep in enemy waters, Rugged encounters deadly mines, depth-charges, and torpedoes! Hunted down by the remorseless destroyers of the Trapani First Eleven, the crew of Rugged, fast running out of oxygen and slowly poisoned by carbon dioxide, must call on every ounce of their reserve if they are to evade the enemy and escape with their lives.

In late 1756, as the British government collapses in the aftermath of the loss of Minorca, and the country and navy are thrown into political chaos, a small force of ships is sent to the West Indies to reinforce the Leeward Islands Squadron. Captain Edward Carlisle and his first lieutenant George Holbrooke are fresh from the Mediterranean and their capture of a powerful French man-of-war. Their new frigate Medina has orders to join a squadron commanded by a terminally ill commodore. Their mission: a near-suicidal assault on a strong Caribbean island fortress.

As we begin The Whole Wide World, the fifth novel in the Rian and Mouse series, Captain Alois Bumper has officially become the commodore of his own line, The Blue Water Packet and Navigation Co., after he buys a second ship as a running mate to Cleo. This causes what Tom and Bumper call “happy problems,” as their first course of action is to spruce up the new vessel and then fill any remaining crew berths in the ships. Mouse has been promoted to First Mate aboard the new packet, business is good at The Two Barrels, and Sofus and his new ‘Da’ have settled in together quite famously. ...

Your biggest threat is the one you can’t see. Retired ex-astronaut, Brock Finlander wants to enjoy the good life, get things back to normal, and forget the past. Despite the things that he had seen over the years, surely, not every legend was true. But a meteor storm over the waters of Claw Island would change all that when Brock captures one of the meteorites that tore through his boat. Now, he finds himself getting sucked back into a world that he desperately wanted to leave behind. And he may have been able to walk away, that is, until an examination of the extraterrestrial rock ...

Cousins at Arms offers listeners the thunder of guns and the clash of cutlasses, but at its heart it’s a thoughtful analysis of a nation’s ill-judged slide into war. This is the thirteenth Carlisle and Holbrooke novel. It continues the journey through the Seven Years War and into the period of turbulent relations between Britain and her American colonies, and ultimately to their bid for independence.

Did the “human” race just get stronger? He thought last summer was behind him for good, but when ex-astronaut Brock Finlander finds a secret code etched into a mutant crab shell, he calls a top marine biologist to make sense of it. His daughter. When she discovers that the animal was genetically bioengineered, Brock needs answers. But when he discovers that the secret code originated at NASA, he enlists the help of a renegade hacker to get inside and find the truth. When the truth you find is too powerful to understand, what do you do? They uncover a dark force so powerful it won’t be...

For four years at Annapolis he prepared for this, pledging his youth, his ambition, and even his life. But when junior officer Dan Lenson finally gets his commission, it's an aging World War II destroyer. Now, with a mix of pride and fear, he heads into the world's most dangerous seas. As the Ryan plunges into the dark waters of the Arctic Circle at the height of storm season, Lenson and the crew pursue a mysterious and menacing enemy. But he soon discovers a foe even more dangerous within the Ryan, advancing a shocking agenda that drives the ship ever closer to disaster.

Extreme Extortion... After rescuing a downed American submarine behind enemy lines, the naval mercenaries had their redemption. Or so they thought… Led by expelled U.S. officer Jake Slate, the growing cast of misfits expected lucrative salvage or combat missions. What they got instead was a gun to their heads. CIA tyrant, Olivia McDonald thrusts them between the United States and Turkey to prevent the NATO navies from clashing over the Syrian invasion. Can they subdue the Turks, escape the CIA’s control, and, if forced, attack the USS Lincoln battle group? Sprinting on a razor’s edge,...

After enjoying two weeks of well-deserved R and R at Pearl Harbor, Art Turner, his crew, and his boat are once again asked to go out and do the impossible…and to make it snappy, already! Webster Clayton has uncovered a Japanese plan to send a major invasion force to Guadalcanal. In order to soften up the marines there, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto intends sending in a battleship to bombard Henderson Field and obliterate the Cactus Airforce.

Fort Niagara is the key to the American continent. Whoever owns that lonely outpost at the edge of civilisation controls the entire Great Lakes region. Pitt’s grand strategy for 1759 is to launch a three-pronged attack on Canada. One army would move north from Lake Champlain, a second would sail up the St Lawrence to capture Quebec, and a third force would strike across the wilderness to Lake Ontario and French-held Fort Niagara. Commander George Holbrooke is seconded to command the six hundred boats to carry the army through the rivers and across Lake Ontario.

Having spent the past few years on missions in the Caribbean, Captain Bliven Putnam is all but ready to retire and settle down at home in Connecticut with his wife, Clarity. But as the Texas Revolution ignites and tensions in the Gulf of Mexico rise, Putnam is sent orders for a secret cruise that could decide the fate of their rebellion. American settlers in Texas have revolted against an increasingly tyrannical Mexican government.