Maritime Thriller

In the great wars of modern history, maritime powers have always prevailed over land-based empires, whether Habsburg, Napoleonic, Nazi, or Soviet. In contrast to the rigid hierarchies and centralization of land-based empires, those nations attaining mastery at sea have been distinguished by liberty, flexibility, and enterprise. The 17th-century Dutch were the first to achieve naval and trading dominance.

★★★AUTOR FINALISTA PREMIO LITERARIO AMAZON STORYTELLER 2025★★★ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ El thriller perfecto que cambia las reglas del género. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sus historias siempre consiguen sorprenderme, por mucho que intente evitarlo Los hechos confirman que estamos ante una gran promesa del mundo editorial. (Diario información) En pleno invierno, cuando la isla de Tabarca se encuentra casi desierta, un grupo de estudiantes de enfermería decide pasar allí unos días de descanso. Lo que prometía ser una escapada tranquila se convierte en una pesadilla cuando una tormenta inesperada...

Motion is life. Stillness is a death sentence. Oakley Brandt is an engineer who can calculate the load-bearing capacity of a bridge in his head, but he can’t handle the weight of his own failure. After freezing during his final exams, he takes a berth on the tall ship Spirit of Cadiz, hoping manual labor will silence the doubts in his mind. But the silence that finds him is not the kind that heals. It starts with a fog bank that swallows the horizon. When it lifts, the crew is gone. The Atlantic Ocean has vanished, replaced by a vast, grey sheet of viscous sludge. The stars are distorted....

By invitation only, nine elite guests board the luxurious Black Orchid for its maiden voyage through the mythic Aegean Sea. Not all of them will survive. Poppy Buchanan, personal assistant to legendary war photographer Lillith McGregor, sees the cruise as her chance at a better life—if she can edge her way into Lillith’s will.

Captain Ray Brunner cherishes the salt-crusted silence of the open water, a sanctuary from the world. But his sanctuary is violated when a group of rowdy, entitled college students step aboard his whale-watching vessel, the Jersey Blue. Their only interest in the ocean is as a backdrop for their drunken escapades, and their disrespect for the sea is a palpable insult. A single, reckless act of drunken arrogance shatters the ocean's peace. A monstrous thud echoes through the hull as the students' carelessness leads to a senseless and unforgivable tragedy—the death of a baby whale. Their ...

A supernatural thriller book set in the vast, eerie expanses of the Pacific Ocean during the late 19th century. "The Haunted Voyage" reveals a chilling tale of a cursed ship, the ill-fated St. John, set within the dramatic canvas of the Pacific deep. From the protagonist, Kelly's desperate step to join the crew to his horrifying ordeal towards the end, every detail is masterfully woven in this tale of maritime horror and supernatural terror. The On-Board ChillsAs quick as they set sail, the crew of the St. John, particularly Kelly, are plagued with inexplicably strange and terrifying ...

Tide Line A Tom Mercury Thriller They built a prison without walls. When a vessel enters Port Caligo during a narrow tide window, everything appears routine. Dock. Transfer. Depart. But when one crew member vanishes between the flood doors and the harbor mouth, Tom Mercury sees what no one else wants to admit: The port isn’t just a gateway. It’s a system. Timed entries. Controlled corridors. Call signs that change mid-channel. Flood doors designed to protect — repurposed to contain. Someone is using the tide as a lock. The harbor as a cage. And the shipping lanes as an extraction ...

LA TREIZIÈME CLOCHE PRIX PROMO : 1,49 € Entrez. Lisez le premier chapitre. Et essayez d'arrêter. Treize coups. Un corps. Zéro témoin. Et vous ne devinerez jamais qui tire les ficelles. Cette nuit-là, les cloches n'auraient jamais dû sonner treize fois. Gabriel Ferrer croyait avoir fui ses démons en s'exilant sur la côte caraïbe. Un phare. Des ruelles qui suintent l'humidité. Une église face à l'océan. Loin de Madrid. Loin de tout. Erreur. Un adolescent gît près de l'autel. Aucun témoin — ou plutôt, personne qui ose parler. Et ce détail qui glace le sang : de l'eau ...

On a cold April in 1786, Joseph kisses his widowed mother goodbye in impoverished St. Giles District of London, England. He is a good hard-working man and loves her, but everything in life has not been fair. Pressed by want and years spent in the run-down and polluted parts of the city, he steps aboard the Fortune, a British whale ship bound for the Pacific Ocean in hopes of a better life. As Fortuna, the goddess of the figurehead would have it, not only the natural perils would enter the square-rigged barque with him on the Greenland Dock that day. It is much worse. The Whaler Fortune is a...

Three mismatched troop transports, lots of 29-foot barges, and an under-strength regiment of foot - a waste of Royal Navy money, a doomed experiment, or a new way to bedevil Napoleon's army in Italy? Either way, it's Capt. Sir Alan Lewrie's idea, and it seems to be working, with successful raids all along the coast of Calabria. But it depends on timely information, and Lewrie must trust Don Julio Caesare, a lord of a Sicilian criminal underworld, and his minions, or the amateur efforts of a disorganized network of Calabrian partisans.

Los piratas han regresado a los Cayos de Florida. Pero no llevan parches en el ojo ni banderas negras. Llegan de noche en lanchas rápidas. Abordan yates de millones de dólares con precisión militar. Y desaparecen antes de que nadie pueda reaccionar. Lena Cruz conoce las aguas alrededor de Cayo Hueso mejor que la mayoría. De día trabaja en los muelles y barcos chárter del puerto histórico. De noche canta en la azotea del hotel La Concha mientras las luces de Duval Street se reflejan sobre el agua. Cuando ocurre el primer asalto parece mala suerte. Cuando ocurre el segundo, empieza a ...

Every sailor in the Caribbean knows the myth of the man who walked out of the fire. They say No-Beard was burned alive by mutineers and returned as a revenant with a heart as cold as the deep . Now, the most feared captain on the water is hunting for more than just merchant silver. He is hunting for the Black Reef Vault, a legendary treasure hoard guarded by something ancient and hungry . When the galleon Nuestra Señora del Sol is trapped in an unnatural fog, its crew discovers the true price of legend . No-Beard has the map to a place where the tides defy the moon and the rocks have teeth...

THEY THOUGHT THE WHALE WAS THE ENEMY. IT WAS JUST THE BAIT. Sarah fears the ocean. She is right to be afraid. When a tourist charter in Alaska encounters a massive humpback, the awe quickly turns to terror. The whale is not acting right. It is sick. It is scarred. And it is running from something. A catastrophic collision capsizes the boat, trapping the survivors in a slowly sinking hull. Cold, dark, and running out of time, they must fight to escape the freezing black water. But the whale did not attack them by accident. It was trying to scrape a parasite off its back. Now that parasite is...

A Cole Mercer Thriller Cole Mercer wanted a quiet few days on the water. Instead, someone drills a hole in the boat he rented and cuts the radio. Hours offshore in the Gulf of Aden, Mercer is left to die. He survives on a crude raft drifting across open ocean—until a passing trawler pulls him from the water. It isn’t a rescue. The ship belongs to pirates. Chained below deck, Mercer studies the crew and waits for his moment. When he finally breaks free, he finds something worse than captivity—children locked in a steel compartment, terrified and silent. Mercer stops thinking about ...

Editorial Review Atmospheric Maritime Horror A chilling blend of historical mystery and psychological terror, GONE transforms the real 1900 disappearance of the Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers into a haunting work of Documented Terror. Ted Lazaris crafts relentless dread inside the lonely tower of Eilean Mor, where the sound of iron footsteps and a light that never goes dark hint at something far more disturbing than a storm at sea. The result is an unforgettable maritime horror story that lingers long after the final page. GONE A Documented Terror — The Flannan Isles Lighthouse ...

The thrill of the chase turns into a voyage of damnation. Captain Vorlag and his hardened pirates aboard the Sea Serpent are masters of the crimson tide, hunting for treasure. But when their relentless pursuit sails them into an eerie, unnatural calm, the familiar ocean whispers of an ancient dread. The hunt is over. Something else is hunting them. From the crushing abyssal depths, an unimaginable horror awakens. A creature of countless teeth and insatiable hunger begins its assault, turning their mighty vessel into a slaughterhouse. Trapped miles from land, under a sky that weeps blood, ...

Un crucero de lujo. Un mar que no olvida. Un misterio que comenzó en 1962… y está a punto de repetirse. Cuando el MV Saraswati desaparece en el Mar Arábigo, las autoridades lo atribuyen a una tormenta. Pero unos sesenta años después, el coleccionista Oliver Bennett encuentra en Goa una piedra milenaria que conecta ambos destinos: la Surya Shila, reliquia sagrada de navegantes perdidos. A bordo del crucero Poseidón, el viaje soñado junto a su pareja Isabella Romano se transforma en una pesadilla. Las brújulas giran sin control. Los pasajeros empiezan a desaparecer. El mar brilla ...

Follow Christoph Swift and his diverse band of companions as they navigate the treacherous waters of the Traders World. In a realm where minosium—a gem of extraordinary power—fuels both progress and conflict, every wave conceals a potential ally or enemy. But in this world where ambition and magic intertwine, every alliance harbors a hidden agenda. As Christoph and his unlikely crew sail from sun-drenched archipelagos to mist-shrouded islands, each discovery brings them closer to the mythical Labyrinth—and to danger. Facing ruthless factions and ancient mysteries, they must master ...

A mystery novel featuring a rookie hard-boiled detective and a contemporary maritime adventure. When fragile Jenny Bowers asks Captain Grande Angil to find out what happened to her son on a Maine fishing boat, the last thing “Grey” expects is murder, deception and conspiracy. Join Grey on his first case as he chases a decades old mystery from Penobscot Bay, Maine, to Langley, VA, to the turquoise waters of the tropics.

“Stevens excels at depicting pulse-pounding danger… Her writing places her heads above most authors working in the thriller genre. Only Dan Brown and Lee Child come close.” —Dallas Morning News Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and information hunter, has a reputation for getting things...