Naval Adventures

December 7, 1941. America reels from the attack on Pearl Harbor. Battleships burn... Thousands dead... The United States Navy prepares for vengeance in the Pacific. But while the nation turns its eyes west…Germany strikes from the east. Hitler and Admiral Dönitz unleash their U-boats along America's Atlantic and Gulf coasts, targeting Allied shipping with ruthless precision. Merchant vessels vanish. Crews are lost. Panic spreads.

3 Explosive Award-Winning Thrillers From James Bultema, the award-winning author whose Red Lines hit #1 in Techno-Thrillers and whose novels have been hailed as some of the best military thrillers of the year, comes the explosive Sea of Red series. With thousands of copies sold and a reputation for relentless authenticity, Bultema delivers high-stakes naval combat, precision air warfare, and heart-pounding geopolitical conflict that keep readers on the edge of their seats. Now experience three full-length stand-alone thrillers in one gripping set. Each novel can be read independently, yet ...

Baltic, Autumn of 1787. A king's ambition. A conspiracy that could drag Britain into war. When Captain Nicholas Cruwys in the frigate Miranda is dispatched to Copenhagen and the Baltic as part of small Royal Navy squadron, he finds the cold northern waters turning towards winter even as events threaten British supply routes through the Sound. King Gustav III of Sweden is spoiling for war with Russia, and powerful forces are moving to ensure that when the conflict comes, Britain will be caught in its grip. Captain Henry Harrington, commanding the frigate Romulus, joins Nicholas in Swedish ...

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.

Book 7 of the Nicholas Cruwys Naval Series Toulon to the Caribbean, 1788–1791. A world unravelling. A revolution that will change everything—and everyone. When Captain Nicholas Cruwys in the frigate Miranda stands on the ramparts of Fort Lamalgue on Christmas Eve 1788, watching the magnificent French fleet spread below him, he can already sense the cracks forming in the old order. The dockyard workers are unpaid, the officers restless, and somewhere across France a catastrophe is building. Orders take Miranda south and west — to the Caribbean, where Saint-Domingue, the richest colony ...

"Freeman kicks off a new series set in Renaissance-era Italy with this stylish espionage thriller [and] brings the period to vivid life. Historical fans should give this a look." Publishers Weekly "Rise of the Black Cross has it all: action, adventure, high-seas villains, corrupt officials, and even romance." Readers' Favorite (5-star review) "A Renaissance spy adventure that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Steve Freeman has done well to cleverly interweave suspense, history, culture, and a mystery to keep the reader engaged. Highly recommend for those that enjoy action historical ...

In the year 1794, an East Indiaman is taken in the Strait of Sunda by French warships that knew her name, and knew exactly where to wait. The war of the French Revolution has reached the farthest ocean. Fresh from the Glorious First of June, Captain Nicholas Cruwys of the Royal Navy and the frigate Topaze are ordered east — to waters he last sailed as a young officer bound for Canton, a decade and a war ago. The harbours are the ones he remembers. Nothing else is. For this is the Company's ocean now: the East India Company, a power greater than most kingdoms, with its own armies, its own ...

1794.Captain Nicholas Cruwys brings the frigate Topaze home to England from the Mediterranean. By spring she must be ready for the Channel Fleet. France is starving, a great grain convoy is crossing the Atlantic to feed her, and Lord Howe means to meet the fleet that will come out of Brest to protect it. What follows is a season of hard sea service: a new company to be made into a fighting one, cruises on the French coast, and scouting work ahead of the fleet as the two great forces search for one another in the open Atlantic — until a sudden vacancy in the line of battle hands Cruwys a ...

Captain Carlisle hails from Virginia, a loyal colony of the British Crown. As the clouds of war gather, Carlisle's small frigate is ordered to Toulon on a reconnaissance mission. If battling the winter weather in the Gulf of Lions is not a sufficient challenge, Carlisle must also juggle the delicate diplomatic issues in this period of pre-war tension while contending with an increasingly belligerent French frigate. But Carlisle has additional problems unique to his colonial origins.

Six hundred years in the future, humanity has learned to cross the stars by entering Two-Space — also called Flatland — a vast two-dimensional realm where sentient wooden warships sail beneath canvas, and advanced technology cannot survive. • There, humans discover a galaxy already filled with other peoples: the elven Sylvans, who flourish in the vast forests of low-gravity worlds; the dwarven Dwadelf, who thrive deep in the mines of high-gravity planets; and other, far stranger alien races. • The ancient Sylvans, enchanted by human culture, have embraced J.R.R.

THE NICHOLAS CRUWYS NAVAL SERIES: BOOKS 1–3 Soundings Edge · Latitudes Edge · Longitudes Edge Three complete novels following Nicholas Cruwys from a fourteen-year-old gentleman volunteer in 1774 to a seasoned commander in the far waters of the China trade — for readers of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester. SOUNDINGS EDGE In the spring of 1774, Nicholas Cruwys leaves the stone halls of Exeter and the ancestral pride of a faded Devonshire line to join His Majesty's Navy — a world where the rigid structures of Georgian society meet the harsh meritocracy of wooden ships and iron ...

PELLEW: FLEET ACTION Midshipman Gerry Pellew escaped a French prison with nothing but the clothes on his back and a debt to the men who didn't make it out. Now, aboard HMS Lark, he's determined to become the officer his late father would have been proud of — if the war doesn't take him first. The blockade off Brest is a slow grind of fog, storms, and waiting — until Lark crosses paths with the Junon, a French frigate captained by a man as skilled and honorable as any Gerry has faced. Twice they meet, first in the fog and then in a squall. The third time, there will be nowhere left to ...

Book Two of the Nicholas Cruwys Naval Series In the wake of the Battle of the Saintes, Lieutenant Nicholas Cruwys is promoted to commander and granted his first independent command: Alert, a captured American schooner refitted for speed, stealth, and irregular duty. He earns distinction along the fractured edges of empire—chasing rumours, carrying dispatches, and sailing far from the lines of fleet engagement. The war is ending and his command may be lost. But for Nicholas Cruwys, the most perilous waters lie ahead. Returning across the Atlantic with Alert, Cruwys finds himself cast into ...

While Art Turner and the men of USS Bull Shark struggle in the Pacific against the Japanese and against their own inner demons, Captain Pat Jarvis and the men of USs Megalodon have a German tiger by the tail in the Caribbean… and it’s only a matter of time before he rips them to pieces.

When, near the end of the Seven Years War, Edward Carlisle’s ship Dartmouth was lost on the shoals inside Cape Henry, he envisaged himself settling down to the life of a wealthy gentleman in Virginia’s capital, Williamsburg, with his wife Chiara. He wouldn’t seek another ship, and he wouldn’t pester their Lordships of the Admiralty; his seagoing days were over. However, it was not to be. He’d always known that there was some dark secret in Chiara’s past, and news from Sardinia made it imperative that it should no longer be ignored.

The year is 1793 and Europe is ablaze with war… Thomas Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang, to be a part of the crew of the battle ship Royal William. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard life fast. Despite all that...

Scarred—physically and emotionally—by the brutal warfare at Dunkirk, Jack Pembroke decides to leave his home in England to join his father, Admiral Pembroke, in the South African Cape. A fledgling naval force is preparing to fight the coming onslaught of German raiders, and Jack is soon thrust back into action when he is appointed commander of a minesweeping flotilla. Unknown to Jack, a Nazi commerce raider has left Germany for the Cape intending to wreak havoc on Allied shipping.

The marines have seized control of the Japanese airfield on Guadalcanal, but this isn’t the end of their troubles…it’s only the beginning. The Japanese bomb them by day, attack from the forbidding darkness of the jungles by night, and their ships, like hungry sharks, prowl just offshore after the sun goes down. Whoever controls the canal controls the war. The Japanese know this, so they concoct a plan to send men and equipment ashore using fast destroyers—ships that can come by night and leave before the Cactus Airforce or Admiral Fletcher’s carrier planes can stop them.

Liberty’s Edge Book V of the Nicholas Cruwys Series 1785. The world has changed, but not the men who must steer it. In the wake of the honours and hazards of Crescent’s Edge—his presentation before the King, his hard-won command of Miranda, and the favour of Lord Howe—Captain Nicholas Cruwys finds that peace demands a subtler courage than war. The Admiralty sends Miranda westward into the uncertain calm that follows revolution. There, amid the new commerce between Britain, America, and the islands between, Cruwys encounters the unfinished business of victory: privateers turned ...

Before the ink was dry on the Constitution of the United States, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the young republic. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect American commerce from the vicious depredations of...