Nursing a damaged destroyer, HMS Charger, across the North Atlantic, Cameron must face a freak storm which causes more than physical problems. 14th in the series featuring the naval hero.
Philip McCutchan Libri
Philip McCutchan sviluppò un fascino duraturo per il mare, derivante dalla sua educazione nell'ambiente navale di Portsmouth Dockyard. Il suo precoce interesse per la storia militare portò a una produzione prolifica, includendo diverse opere di finzione. Questi libri esplorano l'esercito britannico e le sue campagne, concentrandosi in particolare sugli ultimi 150 anni. La scrittura di McCutchan cattura l'essenza della vita navale e militare con dettagli storici e una narrazione avvincente.
With a ship to call his own at last, Royal Navy Lieutenant St. Vincent Halfhyde sails for the Dardanelles in command of the little torpedo-boat Vendetta, part of a flotilla sent to rescue a British sailing ship unlawfully detained by the Russians. Unfortunately, Halfhyde's first command comes complete with a pompous flotilla captain in love with his own voice, and the looming threat of the irascible Admiral Prince Gorsinski. Cutting out the sailing ship from amidst the Russian fleet and sneaking her back through the Narrows under the deadly batteries of the Turks and the Russians is the easy part. Facing Gorsinski's vengeance and the legendary wrath of the Romanovs is another matter!
Halfhyde at the Bight of Benin
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It's the 1890s and Royal Navy Lieutenant St Vincent Halfhyde finds himself out of favor with the Navy and on half-pay ashore when he is summoned to the Admiralty. His mission: to sail to the Bight of Benin in West Africa and spy on the not-so-secret Russian presence there. As a Russian speaker who is familiar with Benin, Halfhyde is confident he's the man for the job--until he runs into Admiral Prince Gorsinski, cousin of the Czar and Halfhyde's former jailer.
Halfhyde's Island
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Royal Navy Lieutenant St Vincent Halfhyde is assigned a second in command of the heavy cruiser Viceroy and ordered to a volcanic island that has recently surfaced in the north Pacific. The Admiralty hopes to claim the island for the Crown and establish an outpost there, but the hostile Russians have other ideas and the wily Japanese are prepared to carry out their own agenda.
