Martin Hicks

The Rappahannock Line continues the story of Irish immigrant Daniel Ryan who serves in Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. As the year 1862 draws to its close, the powerful Union army gathers its strength on the Rappahannock River in Virginia....

A Season for Killing is told from the perspective of Daniel Ryan, a corporal in Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Virginia in 1864 during the American Civil War, as the brutal campaign in the spring and summer of that year unfolds....

It is 1861, and Thomas Grover has resigned from the US Navy to go with his native state of South Carolina, which has left the Union. Grover is eventually offered command of the new warship CSS Palmetto, which will range the oceans seeking out and destroying American vessels....

It is May of 1863, and the Civil War in North America has entered its third year. Facing a range of enemy threats, Southern Commander General Robert E. Lee proposes an invasion of the Northern states....

A Deepening Twilight, the sequel to A Season for Killing, continues the story of Daniel Ryan, an Irish immigrant serving in Robert E. Lee's confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War....

It is the late summer of 1863 and the third year of the war in North America. In the wake of the defeat at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee has returned, with his Confederate army, to Virginia....

A Gathering of Soldiers narrates the story of Daniel Ryan, an Irish immigrant who has begun a new life in Georgia, just as the events leading up to the momentous American Civil War have begun to unfold....

Bond of Blood tells the story of two Irish brothers, each of whom makes the life-changing journey to the new world as the second half of the 19th century draws on....

It is the autumn of 1864 and the Confederate raider Palmetto is in Far Eastern waters, where an encounter with Malay pirates and an attack by hostile islanders have left her seriously undermanned....

It is the autumn of 1852 and the British warship Spartan, commanded by James Rutherford, continues her mission for the East India Company, to destroy a criminal consortium led by the Scorpion, a Chinese criminal named Liang Ziu....