The human torpedo, or chariot, is the ultimate weapon in a war, and only men of extreme courage or recklessness volunteer for the special operations missions requiring its use. Reeman has also...

November 1941. Lt Ralph Trewin, DSC, arrives at Singapore as second-in-command of the shallow-draughter HMS Porcupine.

To Trewin, still shocked from wounds received during the...

December 1917. Germany opens the final, bitter round of the war with a new and deadly weapon in the struggle for the seas – the Vulcan sails from Kiel Harbour. To all appearances she is a...

One unremarkable winter morning, civil servant Richard Eusden is on his way to work in London when he is intercepted by his ex-wife, Gemma. She has sad news of his old friend, her other...

Conceived as an invincible defence against enemy commerce raiders, the battlecruiser was hailed as a triumph. Designed to outrun and outshoot its opponents, its weakness was exposed at the Battle...

HMS Wagtail is a river gunboat, a ship seemingly at the end of her unusual life, lying in a Hong Kong dockyard awaiting her last summons to the breakers' yard. Commander Justin Rolfe is also...

1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseyside. A slaver, she is bound for Africa to buy men and transport them in chains across the Atlantic. But aboard ship disease thrives in the...

In the early nineteen thirties, an ambitious young Scotsman sets out on the long sea voyage to Penang, eager to take up his post running a maternity hospital in the colony. On the journey out, he...

The crack German cruiser Prinz Luitpold had always been lucky in battle. To the beleaguered army on the Baltic coast she was their one remaining symbol of hope.

But it is the summer of...

Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising executive and life-long rebel, is driving out to Brooklands, a motorway town on the M25. A few weeks earlier, his father was fatally wounded at the...

Adriatic, 1940s... Curtis was the pro. He could steer a sub through a saloon and no one would notice. Duncan was the grumbler, more at home in the Aussie Outback than twenty fathoms under the...

Harry Caldecote wants two simple things out of life: peace and pleasure. But between Harry and the pursuit of his idyll lies one disabling inhibition - his irrepressible sense of...

Eldritch Swan is a dead man. Or at least that is what his nephew Stephen has always been told. Until one day Eldritch walks back into his life after 36 years in an Irish prison. He won't reveal...

Malta 1941. To most people H.M.S. Saracen is just an ugly, obsolete ship with an equally ugly recent history: her last commander is due for court-martial after shelling the troops he was sent to...

The old submarine-chaser USS Hibiscus, re-fitting in Hong Kong dockyard before being handed over to the Nationalist Chinese, is suddenly ordered to the desolate island group of Payenhau. For...