April 1915, and it has become apparent that the war will be neither glorious nor short. England is changing, rapidly in some aspects, and the feuding between military and politicians is just beginning.

The three remaining midshipmen, two successful, one disgraced, have survived so far. Simon Sturton is still with the destroyers of the Harwich Patrol, fighting in the unending series of minor actions that keep the Channel open for the troopships to cross to France.

Christopher Adams, once the bright star of his year at Dartmouth, is sent from one temporary, insignificant posting to another, mostly in minesweeping trawlers manned by Reservists, managing to find action in the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

Richard Baker, a failure at sea, finds his new life in the Army increasingly to his taste, enjoying the social prominence of his VC in London, while he trains his new battalion and takes them back to France.

A solitary British destroyer fights a German U-boat in the remote expanses of the South Atlantic in WW II. Patrolling at night, alone in a far reach of the Atlantic, the destroyer Hecate's radar picked up a small echo. Was it a fishing boat, hopelessly off course, or a vagary of the instrument itself, erratic in the heavy weather? Or was it a U-boat? Dawn revealed the truth; and the Hecate began a grim pursuit.The Enemy Below is permeated with the smell of the sea, the tension of warships in action, the prolonged suspense of a duel between two resourceful enemies, so evenly matched that no one could foretell the outcome.

As 1794 draws to a close Richard Bolitho, commanding the old seventy-four-gun ship of the line Hyperion, leaves Plymouth to join a squadron blockading the rising power of Revolutionary France. After six months of repairs his ship is ready to fight again, but her company is mostly raw and untrained. Unfortunately, Bolitho finds himself under a commodore who is no match for the French admiral, Lequiller, whose powerful squadron uses guile and ruthless determination to elude him and vanish into the Atlantic. Hyperion, as part of a small British force, gives chase, the desperate voyage taking them from the Bay of Biscay's squall to the heat of the Caribbean – and for each mile sailed and every battle fought Bolitho finds himself being forced into the ever more demanding role of strategist and squadron commander.

1795 — in der Biskaya: Kurz nach seiner Hochzeit mit Cheney muß Richard Bolitho mit seiner «Hyperion» und einer noch unerprobten Mannschaft auslaufen, um die britische Blockade der Seehäfe Frankreichs zu verstärken. Ein grausames Verbrechen, dem Kapitän Bolitho untätig zusehen muß, macht ihn zum Todfeind des französischen Admirals Lequiller; über Tausende von Seemeilen jagt er ihn bis nach Westindien und wieder zurück in spanische Gewässer, ehe er ihn endlich in der Biskaya stellen und in einem mörderischen Seegefecht bezwingen kann.

1789 — Auf Befehl des Gouverneurs der jungen britischen Kolonie Neusüdwales läuft Kapitän Richard Bolitho mit seiner Fregatte Tempest in den Südpazifik aus. Ganz auf sich allein gestellt, soll er mit seinem Schiff in Polynesien patrouillieren und die bedrohten Versorgungsrouten zwischen den einsamen Handelsposten sichern. Doch in dem scheinbaren Inselparadies grassieren Fieberseuchen, unter der Mannschaft kommt es zu einer Meuterei, und von Piraten aufgewiegelte Eingeborene bilden eine weitere Bedrohung. Richard Bolitho ist in jeder Hinsicht gefordert …

Flying Colours describes the adventures of Horatio Hornblower and his companions escaping from imprisonment in Napoleonic France and returning to England. It was originally published in 1938 as the third in the series, but is ninth by internal chronology.

This is a story of the good old prewar days when dirty freighters plowed peaceful seas, and the special story of the dirtiest ship of the lot with its tatterdemalion crew.Mr. Slobodkin is that rare soul who can discover adventure in a Madison Avenue bus and humor in an attack of the mumps. He handles his own story — his first book for adults — with all the quiet aplomb of a comet or a Fourth of July sizzler.Naturally, Mr. Slobodkin's text is embellished with Mr. Slobodkin's drawings — capricious and inimitable.From the dust-jacket:"Where have you ever been, Slobodkin?" The answer was nowhere. A ship was the remedy. With the taunt ringing in his ears, Louis Slobodkin, ample-bodied seaman, with duffle — pajamas and toothbrush — in hand and a rollicking gait, shipped out for the Argentine.

It is March 1811, and Richard Bolitho is recalled to duty after only two and a half months of precious peace in Cornwall with his beloved mistress Catherine. Promoted Admiral, his choice of flagship and flag captain shock the Admiralty, but Bolitho, poignantly aware of his own vulnerability, surrounds himself only with those men he can trust completely: the faithful Allday, the withdrawn and intelligent Avery, and James Tyacke, who must confront the sternest test of his loyalty with great personal courage. When diplomacy fails the cannon must speak, and Bolitho, patrolling the troubled waters from Antigua north to Halifax, knows that when war with America comes he must fight an enemy not foreign but familiar, for the freedom to leave the sea forever.

The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean's masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone.

The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, Keith Mallory, Andrea and Dusty Miller are parachuting into war-torn Yugoslavia to rescue a division of Partisans ... and to fulfil a secret mission, so deadly that it must be hidden from their own allies.

In June 1793 Captain Richard Bolitho arrives at Gibraltar to take command of the Hyperion, a seventy-four-gun ship of the line. Although not completely recovered from a serious fever contracted in the Great South Sea, Bolitho is eager to get back to duty against the rising might of Revolutionary France. He sails to join Lord Hood to partake in the Monarchist-inspired occupation of Toulon. But at heart Bolitho is still a frigate captain, and he is soon fretting at being tied to the fleet's apron strings; his ship, too, is old and slow, her hull weed-encrusted after nearly four years' continuous commission. Beneath the Mediterranean sun, and often in sight of the enemy coast, Bolitho and his tired old ship face one conflict after another – and when at last the ill-fated campaign collapses in failure it is the Hyperion, outgunned and outnumbered, which takes her rightful place in the line of battle.

For all lovers of maritime adventure comes an electrifying thriller of treachery and peril on the high seas featuring a dynamic new heroine, from multi-award-nominated suspense star Owen Laukkanen.

In the high-stakes world of deep-sea salvage, an ocean disaster can mean a huge payoff—if you can survive the chase.

McKenna Rhodes has never been able to get the sight of her father’s death out of her mind. A freak maritime accident has made her the captain of the salvage boat Gale Force, but it’s also made her cautious, sticking closer to the Alaska coastline. She and her crew are just scraping by, when the freighter Pacific Lion, out of Yokohama, founders two hundred miles out in a storm.

This job is their last chance—but there is even more at stake than they know. Unlisted on any manifest, the Lion’s crew includes a man on the run carrying fifty million dollars in stolen Yakuza bearer bonds. The Japanese gangsters want the money. The thief’s associates want the money. Another salvage ship, far bigger and more powerful than Gale Force, is racing to the rendezvous as well. And the storm rages on. If McKenna can’t find a way to prevail, everything she loves–the ship, her way of life, maybe even her life itself–will be lost.

Filled with bravery, betrayal, sudden twists, and pure excitement, Gale Force is a spectacular new adventure from the fast-rising suspense star.

1800 — Der Krieg England gegen Napoleon droht auf Dänemark überzugreifen. Konteradmiral Richard Bolitho operiert deshalb mit seinem Geschwader in der Ostsee, und zwar zugleich gegen Dänen, Russen und Franzosen. Besonders die Befreiung englischer Handelsschiffe bei Gotland und der Angriff auf Kopenhagen sind Bewährungsproben für das Flaggschiff «Benbow» und seinen jungen Admiral, der hier auch nach vielen Schicksalsschlägen wieder ein privates Glück findet.

Garais Džons SilversBjerns Larsons

Conventional wisdom is that if the Crown Colonies of the Commonwealth of New England ever unite in common purpose; then the Empire might fall. That this might happen at the very moment that century-old post-war settlement of the Treaty of Paris is threatening to fall apart, had been the unimaginable nightmare of generations of European monarchs, politicians, diplomats and generals.

The unthinkable is happening. Mexican troops are advancing through the South Western borderlands of New England; nothing can stop them. At sea, the supposedly invincible Royal Navy has been driven from the Caribbean and the Gulf of Spain. The handful of survivors of HMS Achilles are trapped in enemy territory. The three brothers unwittingly caught up in the events of Empire Day, 1976, are swept along by the tide of events, while news of Melody Danson and Henrietta De L’Isle’s adventures in Spain momentarily distract a bewildered and increasingly uneasy, public in the old and the new worlds.

In apparent disarray in the Americas, at home in England, the Government is attempting to navigate the fallout from the death of the Kaiser, distracted from the problems across the Atlantic. And then secrets more explosive than any of the weapons deployed in the war threatening to change the map of New England, burst in the midst of the crisis. In a world threatening to dissolve into chaos; who can step from the shadows to save the day?

James Philip was born in London. He and his wife live in Hampshire in the heart of the south of England. Having despaired of ever getting his fiction published by main stream publishers he has embraced the e-publishing revolution with something akin to glee. Surprised by the positive reception to the e-publication of Until the Night and several of his other books, he has now become a full time writer for the first time in his life and is currently working on a large number of new projects including additional instalments to existing series.

The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from the grand master of adventure.When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt doesn’t trust either version of his recollection.Determined to know the truth, he begins to search for answers, and soon finds himself descending into a shadowy world of state-sponsored cybercrime, and uncovering a pattern of vanishing scientists, suspicious accidents, and a web of human trafficking. With the help of Joe Zavala, he takes on the sinister organization at the heart of this web, facing off with them in locations ranging from Monaco to North Korea to the rugged coasts of Madagascar. But where he will ultimately end up¾even he could not begin to guess.

April 12, 1861. With one jerk of a lanyard, one shell arching into the sky, years of tension explode into civil war. And for those men who do not know in which direction their loyalty calls them, it is a time for decisions. Such a one is Lieutenant Samuel Bowater, an officer of the U.S. Navy and a native of Charleston, South Carolina. Hard-pressed to abandon the oath he swore to the United States, but unable to fight against his home state, Bowater accepts a commission in the nascent Confederate Navy, where captains who once strode the quarterdecks of the world's most powerful ships are now assuming command of paddle wheelers and towboats. Taking charge of the armed tugboat Cape Fear, and then the ironclad Yazoo River, Bowater and his men, against overwhelming odds, engage in the waterborne fight for Southern independence.

BuchAuf die Frage, wie er denn solch ein vollendetes Meisterwerk wie den David habe schaffen können, soll Michelangelo geantwortet haben, er habe lediglich all den überflüssigen Marmor entfernen müssen. Die Frage nach Gründen für den immensen Erfolg, den Michael Crichton mit seinem Schaffen von Fiktionen hatte, lässt an diese Pointe denken. Seinen Geschichten haftet nichts an, was nicht dazu dient, die Vorstellungskraft des Publikums zu befeuern. Sein Roman GOLD bleibt dieser Maxime wieder kompromisslos treu; die markanten Figuren, die haargenau umrissenen Schauplätze, die stürmische Handlung – alles steht in dem Dienst, dem Leser ein fulminantes Abenteuer vor Augen zu führen. Dabei hält Crichton sich nicht damit auf, seinen Protagonisten Captain Charles Hunter die romantische Verwegenheit verströmen zu lasen, die von Erol Flynn bis Johnny Depp sämtlichen karibischen Piratengestalten obligatorisch um die Lippen spielt. In GOLD ist keine Zeit für Kostümgeraschel oder Edelmanntümelei, auf ihrem Weg zum fast unmöglich hochgesteckten Ziel bleibt Hunter und seiner Crew nicht mehr Luft zum Atmen als dem Leser. Der Sturmwind über der Karibik sekundiert bei einem packenden Seefahrerduell, und nur er mag wissen, wer dabei Jäger und wer Gejagter ist.AutorMichael Crichton wurde 1942 in Chicago geboren und studierte in Harvard Medizin. Crichton, der seit Mitte der Sechzigerjahre Romane schrieb, griff immer wieder gekonnt neueste naturwissenschaftliche und technische Forschungen auf. Für »Emergency Room«, die international erfolgreiche Serie, schrieb er das Drehbuch. Seine Thriller – darunter »Jurassic Park«, »Enthüllung«, »Welt in Angst« und »Next« – wurden auch als Filme weltweite Erfolge, über siebenundzwanzig Romane und hundert Millionen verkaufte Bücher stehen für sein Werk. Im November 2008 starb Michael Crichton im Alter von 66 Jahren.Titel der Originalausgabe: Pirate Latitudes Originalverlag: HarperCollins Publishers, New YorkCopyright © der Originalausgabe 2009 by The John Michael Crichton Trust

In the fourth book of the Nicholas Ramage series Lieutenant Lord Ramage, expert seafarer and adventurer, undertakes to escort a convoy across the Caribbean. This seemingly routine task leads him into a series of dramatic and terrifying encounters. Lord Ramage is quick to learn that the enemy attacks from all angles and he must keep his wits about him in order to survive. Fast and thrilling, this is another highly-charged adventure from the masterly Dudley Pope.