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Captain Hale’s Covenant

By Thomas E. Crocker - Published 2022

Genres:

AdventureNauticalSaga

Captain Adam Hale is a blockade runner during the American Revolution. Beginning in 1783, he decides to put his maritime experience to use in ...Read Review

The Sea of Silence: A Nathan Peake Novel

By Seth Hunter - Published 2021

Genres:

AdventureNautical

In the tradition of Hornblower and Aubrey/Maturin comes this third in a new series of Napoleonic seafaring adventures. “Jane Austen for boys” ...Read Review

HMS Hazard (John Pearce, 16)

By David Donachie - Published 2021

Genres:

AdventureNautical

In the early summer of 1796, John Pearce commands the 14-gun Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Hazard. She is manned by inexperienced “quota men” ...Read Review

A River in Borneo: A Tale of the East Indies

By Richard Woodman - Published 2021

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Lt. Charlie Kirton finds the perfect place to mount a machine gun and command the river snaking through the rainforest of Indonesian Borneo ...Read Review

Hunters in the Stream: A Riley Fitzhugh Novel

By Terry Mort - Published 2021

Genres:

MilitaryThriller

Going from a private investigator in Los Angeles to a naval officer in 1942 doesn’t seem to be much of a jump to ...Read Review

The Scent of Betrayal

By David Donachie - Published 2003

Genres:

AdventureMystery/CrimeNautical

David Donachie has enjoyed his share of acclaim as a writer of nautical fiction using the name of Tom Connery as well as ...Read Review

So Near So Far

By C. Northcote Parkinson - Published 2003

Genres:

MilitaryNauticalRomance

For Captain Richard Delancey, his triumph at taking a French prize is mingled with misfortune. Peace has been declared. Conflict has become personal ...Read Review

Twelve Seconds to Live

By Douglas Reeman - Published 2003Published 2003 (UK)

Genres:

MilitaryNautical

Douglas Reeman is as fine a writer on warships and the crews that live and die on them as one can find in ...Read Review

Between Two Fires

By Nicholas Nicastro - Published 2002

Genres:

Biographical FictionNauticalSaga

This second volume of a trilogy on the life of the American naval hero, John Paul Jones, starts with his commission to the ...Read Review

Touch and Go

By C. Northcote Parkinson - Published 2003

Genres:

AdventureNautical

Parkinson’s Richard Delancey has been promoted to command H.M.S. Merlin in his fourth adventure of the series. Delancey serves in 1799 ...Read Review