Naval Military Thriller

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.

Bull Shark and S-52 have just attacked a large bombardment fleet off the coast of Guadalcanal. And although they didn’t stop Henderson from being shelled, they might have at least curtailed it. Yet the Japanese are undaunted and more determined than ever…and the Empire has its sights set on some of its most deadly foes.

After recovering from a harrowing mission near the island of Timor, Art Turner and the crew of USS Bull Shark have healed their wounds and are ready to face Japan once more. As 1943 begins, Admiral “Uncle Charlie” Lockwood is finally ready to spring a deadly surprise on Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.

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 ...

After a series of failed assaults on Guadalcanal and Henderson Field, Japan is rallying for a major offensive. Ground troops, surface bombardment, and a carrier-supported invasion of the island looms darkly on the horizon. Now, Bull Shark must circle the nearby islands to discover and slow down this onslaught long enough for Allied forces to dig in.

USS Bull Shark is running for Pearl Harbor after leaving New London and her victory over the Nazi Q-ship, but all is not well aboard the boat. The Japanese are planning a major offensive and the clock is rapidly ticking – with what will become one of the most decisive battles of the war looming on the horizon, the Navy still doesn’t know exactly where or when it’s going to happen. Can Bull Shark play her part in the Battle of Midway? Or will she meet with Yamamoto’s secret weapon and be swept aside in Japan’s quest for power?

Whoever controls the Solomon Islands controls the vital sea lanes between the United States and Australia. When Imperial Japan seizes Tulagi and begins constructing a strategic airfield on Guadalcanal, the balance of the Pacific War hangs in the balance. America must strike first—or risk losing the entire theater. As a massive invasion force prepares for the first major U.S. offensive of the war, Lieutenant Commander Art Turner and the decorated crew of USS Bull Shark are assigned a dangerous covert mission deep behind enemy lines.

World War III has begun. And no one is safe. ⭐ “The closest thing to Tom Clancy I’ve read in years.” ⭐ “Chillingly realistic—and impossible to put down.” ⭐ “A nonstop, adrenaline-fueled ride from start to finish.” The first missiles fall without warning. Within hours, the world is at war. Across the Pacific, American and allied forces are shattered—airbases reduced to ash, fleets scattered, defenses overwhelmed. What was once unthinkable becomes reality as the balance of power collapses in a single, devastating blow. Now, the fight to survive begins. Deep beneath the...

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.

There are no Gods in the trench. Only monsters. When the classified deep sea prototype USS Leviathan (X-241) vanishes near the Laurentian Abyss, the Navy scrambles for answers. Minutes later, the USS Seawolf (SSN-21) records a sonar contact that is colossal, biological, and accelerating. Then the ocean swallows it whole. Team Odin deploys the new ORCA Platoon, a sixteen-operator unit drawn from the most lethal Naval Special Warfare teams on the planet. Their mission takes them into the abyss in DS-RAX Armor, advanced technology engineered by DARPA and the Skunkworks Division at Nidavellir ...

A modern American expeditionary strike group vanishes from a routine exercise — and reappears in the Mediterranean at the edge of the Second Punic War. No satellites. No resupply. No modern nation behind them. Only finite fuel, limited ammunition, fragile medical stores, and ships powerful enough to terrify the ancient world — but not powerful enough to survive carelessness. Commodore Daniel Mercer commands a fleet that should not exist in 218 BCE. Around him are modern warships, Marines, aircraft, drones, engineers, doctors, and enough firepower to shatter any ancient navy. But every ...

A Navy trial goes wrong—and the USS Gerald R. Ford wakes in 1519, where modern power becomes myth and myth becomes war. A classified Navy trial goes wrong—and the USS Gerald R. Ford wakes in the Gulf of Mexico in 1519, cut off from the modern world. On a coastline that has never seen electricity, a single floodlight becomes a prophecy. Captain Mara Ellison must hold four thousand sailors together while quarantine lines, improvised diplomacy, and scarce supplies decide who lives—and what kind of power they become. For readers fascinated by the legend of the Philadelphia Experiment, ...

A damaged U.S. submarine leaves Fremantle with unreliable torpedoes, a secret coded mission, and a captain haunted by the twelve Marines he left behind. September 1942. USS Rathbone is ordered into hostile waters with a crew still learning to trust its new commander. When a sealed directive sends them toward a mysterious signal called PILGRIM, Lieutenant Commander Thomas Deere must lead his boat through Japanese convoys, faulty torpedoes, depth charges, and a mission that may cost more than any man aboard can bear. Perfect for readers of classic WWII submarine fiction, Pacific war thrillers...

1904. The Russo-Japanese War has been raging for almost a year. When blacklisted former Royal Navy officer Marcus Baxter is offered the chance to spy on a Russian ship passing through the North Sea, he jumps at the chance to regain his commission. Accompanied by young Tommy Dunbar, desperate to earn his sea legs, Baxter is betrayed by the crew and captured by a Russian cruiser, the Yaroslavich, where both he and Tommy are held captive in an attempt to avoid escalating tension with Britain.

The road has a name now. And every empire wants to own it. After the impossible arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford in 1519, Fort Rainbow is no longer just a stranded military outpost. It has become something far more dangerous: a system. A road. A source of clean water, medicine, light, work, records, and law in a world that understands power through tribute, kings, gods, and conquest. To the people who depend on it, the Compact is survival. To Spain, it is a prize. To the great powers of the lake, it is a threat. To the black markets growing in its shadow, it is an opportunity. And to the ...

Inspired by the classic Star Trek episode Balance of Terror. ⭐ Rated 4.3 on Goodreads • 12 Ratings Hollywood actress by day. WWII inventor by night. Hedy Lamarr believes her revolutionary frequency-hopping technology will help the Allies win World War II. But when her invention is tested aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer during a violent Atlantic storm, the impossible happens. Locked in a deadly cat-and-mouse battle with a German U-boat, both warships are pulled through a mysterious time vortex... into the past. Now sworn enemies face an impossible choice: Prevent the worst maritime disaster...

The first in an action-packed spy series introducing Lieutenant Dragan Kelly. It is 1942. HMS Visigoth has been torpedoed off the coast of German occupied Norway. Sole survivor Lieutenant Dragan Kelly finds himself behind enemy lines, unsure who to trust. The Norwegian resistance share rumours about a mysterious Nazi plant where an Armageddon weapon of terrifying power is under construction. Should Kelly escape to Russia or stay and investigate it? And what of the stunningly beautiful but enigmatic resistance fighter Sybilla? Kelly falls in love with her, but is she all she claims to be? ...

1949 – America Alone An Alternate History Military Thriller The war is over. The world is not. In this gripping alternate history novel, the aftermath of a brutal China–Soviet war leaves the world balanced on a fragile ceasefire—but peace is only an illusion. Across the globe, nations are no longer rebuilding… they are rearming. China advances its deadly Red Horizon missile programme, pushing long-range rocket technology further with every test. Britain dominates the skies with powerful jet fighters and carrier aviation, projecting force across the Pacific. Europe, led by German ...

Pearl Harbor took everything from him. Now he has one mission left. December 1941. A Japanese Zero cartwheels out of the burning sky and destroys Commander Gavin Diesel’s world in forty-five seconds. His wife. His daughter. Gone. He wakes from a coma with nothing left but the war. Two years later, Diesel commands the USS Swordback — a Balao-class fleet submarine, black-painted, fast, and armed with the new wakeless electric torpedoes that leave no trail for the enemy to follow. His reputation for aggressive tactics and ice-cold nerve under depth-charging has made him the Pacific ...

The ocean doesn’t forgive, and neither does Commander Zakari Danjuma. Known as the "Quiet Storm," Zakari is a man forged in the shadows of the Black Continental Defense, fueled by the memory of a family stolen from him by "accidents" that felt too much like executions. But during a high-stakes raid on a phantom oil rig in the Gulf of Guinea, the mission goes sideways. Zakari recovers a quantum-encrypted drive that proves the pirates he’s hunting aren’t outlaws; they’re elite foreign operatives. Even worse? The data inside suggests that the people giving him orders are the ones who ...