Maritime Crime

2015 saw the worst American maritime disaster in decades. The captain of the SS El Faro commanded his crew to sail straight into a hurricane. The ship sank and all 33 crew members died. The sinking raised troubling questions: Why did the captain choose to sail into the hurricane? Why did no one on board or on shore stop him? And why was such an old and heavily loaded ship even allowed on the water? The crew of the SS El Faro is gone, but their haunting final hours were preserved by the ship’s black box.

What happens when Blackbeard meets Jesse James? When a monstrous storm tears open time itself over Nassau Harbor, Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, and Calico Jack Rackham are hurled from the Golden Age of Piracy into the brutal world of the American Wild West. San Francisco, 1873. Six-shooters rule the frontier. Outlaws rob the rails. The legends of the Caribbean mean little in a century ruled by gunslingers. To survive, the crew of the Queen Anne's Revenge must trade cutlasses for revolvers, outrun the pirate hunter who followed them through time, and chase a fortune across a lawless frontier. But ...

Beneath the waves lie stories the world was never meant to forget. From the doomed voyage of the Titanic to the eerie silence of the Mary Celeste, Drowned in Silence dives deep into fifteen of the most chilling, mysterious, and tragic sea disasters ever recorded. Author James Calloway brings each tale to life with immersive, emotional storytelling that will haunt readers long after the final page. Survival. Mystery. Loss. The sea remembers everything.

A Financial Times Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year “A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale “A fascinating read. Highly recommended!”-John Carreyrou, bestselling author of Bad Blood "Truly...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it...

A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place...

Lucky Jack Aubrey escapes the burdens of domesticity when he is appointed to the post of Admiral for an expedition to the coast of Madagascar where French frigates are threatening one of England's valued trade routes.

Riveting stories of our last frontier and the acts of God and man upon it Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at...

When a crab pot is hauled from the grey waters off St Petroc, it brings more than the day's catch. Inside the wire mesh, wedged at an unnatural angle, is the body of local fisherman Tom Hendry. DS Jack Penrose knows these waters. He knows the boats, the tides, and the men who work them. He also knows Tom Hendry didn't drown by accident. The knots are wrong—machine-tied, not a fisherman's work. The rope is cheap chandler's stock, not proper gear. And Tom was too experienced to make mistakes. But when a second fisherman washes up dead, and then a third, the pattern becomes clear: someone is...

In Final Option, Juan Cabrillo fights the worst enemy from his past to the terrifying and unexpected finish created by the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler, in the latest action-packed thriller in his #1 New York Times-bestselling series. When the CIA realizes the identities of three...

A respected hospital. Three recovering patients. Three deaths that should never have happened. When a dockworker dies unexpectedly after successful surgery at Blackwater Hospital, retired naval surgeon Silas Vance is asked to examine the body. The wounds are clean. The operation was sound. Yet something in the man’s dressing has turned routine treatment into murder. Then another patient dies in the same ward. The victims share a hidden connection. All belonged to the same dockside work gang, all survived a suspicious hoist collapse, and all signed compensation agreements they barely ...

One of the largest, fastest, and most beautiful ships in the world, the Andrea Doria was en route to New York from Italy. Departing from the United States was the much smaller Stockholm. On the foggy night of July 25, 1956, 53 miles southeast of Nantucket, the Stockholm sliced through the Doria's steel hull. Within minutes, the sea was pouring into the Italian liner. Eleven hours later, she capsized and sank into the ocean.

They are all gone now―the Titanic survivors. No human being who stood on her decks that fateful night was alive to commemorate the event on its 100th anniversary. Their stories are with us, however, and the lessons remain. From the moment the world learned the Titanic had sunk, we wanted to know, who had survived? Those answers didn’t come until the evening of Thursday, April 18, 1912―when the Cunard liner Carpathia finally reached New York with the 706 survivors who had been recovered from Titanic’s lifeboats. Harold Bride, “Titanic’s surviving wireless operator,” relayed the...

"Narrator Roger Davis, who earned first-class honors in media and anthropology, puts his training to good use to lead listeners through 17th- and 18th-century Malagasy history." - Library Journal The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of...

Action Adventure Thriller Box Set: Books 1 – 3 Desert FIRE When maritime archaeologist and former Recon Marine Dr. Chase Steele uncovers a radioactive artifact from an ancient shipwreck, he triggers a deadly global manhunt. It is the ignition key to a pre-Ice Age machine beneath the Giza Plateau. Hunted by a ruthless billionaire intent on releasing the Great Pyramid’s true power, Steele and his partner Kai must race from the depths of the Libyan Sea to the burning skies of Cairo to stop a cataclysm that will erase civilization. FROZEN SECRET Hired to recover a doomed 1947 Navy squadron ...

“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...

A breathtaking thriller, employing both history and mystery, capturing the attention of the reader from the first to the last page and which illuminating the darkest scenarios of the history of Christianity and Judaism. A novel about men ready to do anything, interested not in the truths of their faith, but in protecting some of the greatest mysteries of humanity. What is the Ark of the Covenant, really? What is hidden inside? Who was Moses, really? What if, despite the millennial tradition of the Promised Land, Moses had been no one other than a warrior in search of the power and fame he ...

A ghost ship drifts into the Pool of London. One man is dead. The only witness has vanished. When the schooner Sea Serpent emerges from the Thames fog with no crew aboard, former naval surgeon Silas Vance is summoned to investigate. In a flooded cabin, financier Alistair Finch sits dead behind a writing desk. The room suggests drowning, but Finch’s boots are dry, his brandy carries the scent of medicine, and a lead token bearing a raven is hidden in his coat. Then Vance receives a message from a frightened sailor who claims to have seen what happened. Before the witness can speak, he ...

A vanished passenger. A watched saloon. A coffin no one dares to open. On a rain-darkened evening, former naval surgeon Silas Vance boards the Thames steamer Empress of Kent to meet Gideon Shaw, a frightened former shipping clerk who claims he can identify the man behind the divided crown. Before Shaw can surrender his evidence, he enters a private saloon—and disappears. The doors were watched. The deck rails remained visible. No boat approached the steamer, and a police inspector guarded the only passenger gangway. Yet somewhere between Woolwich and Greenwich, Shaw vanished without ...

A cruise ship attack turns six survivors into overnight celebrities after they take credit for the heroic act of a stowaway who died saving them. The cruise is just what Jess needed--a bit of harmless fun far from her daily grind. But what begins as a relaxing vacation turns into a desperate fight for her life when terrorists take over the ship and start piling up bodies. Teaming up with a mysterious stowaway, Jess attempts to send out a distress call but knows they cannot wait for help to come. If she or the few remaining passengers have any hope for survival, Jess must act now. The papers...