"Hornblower and the Widow McCool" is a short story by C. S. Forester, featuring his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published together with the unfinished novel Hornblower and the Crisis and another short story, "The Last...
In the aftermath of a typhoon, Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater brings His Britannic Majesty's frigate Patrician into the shelter of the Pearl River on the China coast. Seeking the means to refit, he is unwittingly entangled in bizarre events...
A PLUNDERED TREASURE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS . . . A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION IN THE PACIFIC . . . AN EVIL PLOT TO BRING THE WEST TO ITS KNEES!
A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized by Japanese...
The British Empire has sleepwalked, unprepared into war with the Triple Alliance, the Spanish colonies of the Caribbean and Central America.
But this is not to be a war like those which have gone before it; wars decided by crushing British sea...
A ghost ship drifts across the northern Pacific…
A Soviet luxury liner burns like a funeral pyre…
And the U.S. President's yacht is heading for disaster…
Somewhere off the coast of Alaska, a sunken cargo poses a threat of...
Gordon Korman’s adventurous DIVE trilogy comes to an action-packed conclusion with THE DANGER.
The kids have found sunken treasure. The adults want to keep it for themselves. But there’s a chance that both will lose it if they don’t act...
Ordered to Naples after the battle of Trafalgar, Ramage and the Calypso are given fresh orders. The Barbary Coast pirates, the Saracens, are active in Sicily again, and terrorizing fishing ports. Ramage and his crew are sent to Sicily to track...