The Recipient’s Son is many things. It is a sensitive novel about a young man’s coming of age. It is a revealing novel about life in the somewhat closed educational institutions of the armed forces – in this case, the US…
The Recipient’s Son is many things. It is a sensitive novel about a young man’s coming of age. It is a revealing novel about life in the somewhat closed educational institutions of the armed forces – in this case, the US…
Pirate Alley is a little outside the normal for this blog. Sure, it’s about pirates. And about naval action. But while it reads like fiction, it is unfortunately not fiction. For unpleasant as it may be, piracy is for real, and…
Historical fiction is educational. The Greater the Honor is a naval fiction novel, well- researched and based on historical facts about the Barbary War. Until relatively recently, I didn’t know anything about the Barbary Wars or even about American naval presence in…
Uprising is the second book in Winston’s naval fiction series featuring Jonathan Kinkaid. In the first novel, Independent Action, we followed Lt. Kinkaid on a very successful mission in the North Atlantic and through a difficult period in captivity. Now Jonathan Kinkaid…
The Aden Effect is Lt. Commander Claude Berube’s first fiction book—he has previously authored three non-fiction books. Berube has a background in Naval Intelligence and seems to have both first-hand experience and solid knowledge of the subject matter of this novel.…
There are many historical novels about submarines during World War II and several of which are excellent. Run Silent, Run Deep, written by Edward Latimer Beach, Jr., who was a highly-decorated United States Navy submarine officer, is one of the best…
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…
I am a great lover of naval fiction and a fan of authors like Patrick O’Brian, C.S. Forester, Alexander Kent, Dewey Lambdin, and others. They tell great and very entertaining stories about the exploits of fictional heroes in the Royal Navy in the historical fiction tradition. Nelson…
Patrick Robinson’s navy thriller Barracuda 945 is a fast-paced techno-thriller that will delight fans of the Admiral Arnold Morgan series. It is a story full of action. It starts with British SAS commando Major Ray Kerman, stationed in Israel, who decides to join…