Ramage and the Renegades is a great historical fiction book and important in the Lord Ramage series. In this book, the Marchesa of Volterra, who has been Lord Ramage’s love through the series so far, realizes that marriage is not going to…
Ramage and the Renegades is a great historical fiction book and important in the Lord Ramage series. In this book, the Marchesa of Volterra, who has been Lord Ramage’s love through the series so far, realizes that marriage is not going to…
The Lord Ramage series by Dudley Pope is one of my personal favorites among the many good nautical fiction series. It’s clever, funny, and full of action. Ramage’s Devil starts in 1803, during the short-lived Peace of Amiens, which lasted from March 1802…
This is the third installment in the series often referred to as the Saga of Geoffrey Frost. In contrast to the previous two, however, this third novel mostly takes place on dry land, so it is not really a nautical fiction book. The…
I like this series better and better. I thought the first book I read was good, but not in any way exceptional. But this book, actually the eleventh in the sequence I think, more or less blew my mind. To…
The ninth novel in Patrick O’Brian’s Maturin/Aubrey saga is set in Malta following the events in The Ionian Mission. Captain Aubrey’s favorite ship, HMS Surprise, is undergoing repairs. However, Malta is swarming with Napoleonic agents, so that Stephen Maturin is kept very busy. And to…
It’s now 1803 and Thomas Kydd, who started his career as a pressed man, now commands a brig-sloop, HMS Teazer. This is an unrated vessel too small to have a place in the line of battle. For Kydd, it, even so, represents…
Richard Woodman’s series of books featuring Nathaniel Drinkwater is among the very best nautical fiction series ever written. This adventure of Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater confronts him with some of the toughest challenges so far. It is now 1807, and while Napoleon is…
This is a book in the Admiral Arnold Morgan series by Robinson. This time Morgan as a National Security Advisor is up against the increasingly brazen People’s Republic of China. China has come into possession of stolen U.S. military technology,…
This is the eight book in the Aubrey/Maturin series of nautical fiction novels by Patrick O’Brian. Captain Jack Aubrey has been given the Worcester, a ship of the line of 1842 tons, and is to sail her to The Mediterranean to join the British Naval…
The story in HMS Unseen is a loose follow-up to Nimitz Class. Once more Ben Adnam is back in the action. He survived the action in the previous book in the series, but he is still in trouble. However, he manages to evade…