With the onset of the Great War, Tom Chatto enters the Royal Navy Reserve and acquires a commission as a lieutenant. He soon acquires command of his ship when his captain and first lieutenant are shot down.
The grand admiral of the high seas adventure novel is Philip McCutchan, author of nearly 100 novels. Now, leading the first trade paperback edition of any of McCutchan's work, Convoy North portrays the popular Commodore John Mason Kemp battling World War II's German air and sea attacks in the waters of Norway's North Cape.
It is 1897, and Captain James Ogilvie of the 114th Queen's Own Royal Strathspeys has been assigned to the 99th Rawalpindi battalion on India's Northwest frontier. Life is quiet until the volatile Jarar Mahommed seizes the British Resident Minister and his family and holds them hostage at Kunarja. Ogilvie's battalion is ordered to march through the Khyber Pass to save them falling neatly into the chieftain's trap as the gates of Kunarja close behind them ...
Lieutenant St Vincent Halfhyde, RN, is appointed to the battleship Prince Consort, to proceed to South Africa on a special mission: to apprehend Sir Russell Savory, who has fled the country with secret blueprints of the forthcoming naval construction program. Halfhyde, together with Detective Inspector Todhunter, must find Savory before he can make contact with Berlin, but the Prince Consort is overhauled by the German Special Service Squadron-with the obvious intention of beating the British Navy in the race for Sir Russell Savory.
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