Sea Stories
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Dewey Lambdin [Lambdin, Dewey]

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Captain Joshua Kershaw, U.S. Navy, was a hearty older fellow, a tall, bluff, and stout man in his fifties, and in his youth might have been a most ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Patrick O'Brian [O'Brian, Patrick]

Captain Aubrey was indeed in the cabin, leaning over some bundles of official papers tied with black tape or red. 'There you are,' he cried, raising his head with a ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-25 | Author:David Donachie [Donachie, David]

When it came to travelling overland Michael O’Hagan was much better equipped to cope: he had not only done it previously, but he was country bred, having been raised on ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Patrick O'Brian [O'Brian, Patrick]

The conditions were perfect for the attack. The remains of the easterly wind would carry the Sophie in, and the breeze that would spring up off the land at about ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Alex Garland [Garland, Alex]

The Decisive Moment "Hi," said a voice, and I turned round. A small boy was standing in the gateway of the house behind me. He grinned and marched over the ...
( Category: Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Dewey Lambdin [Lambdin, Dewey]

CHAPTER NINETEEN Shameless!" Helio de Guilleri spat, still seething after what she'd done; had been seething since she and that lout, a common sailor, a despicable Englishman, had left the ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1981-11-29 | Author:Peter Lovesey [Lovesey, Peter]

16 After dinner Johnny Finch entertained Alma and the Americans from their table. He sat in an armchair in the centre of the lounge and told motoring stories. They were ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2010-06-10 | Author:Cussler, Clive [Clive, Cussler,]

THE TROUTS thanked Summers and walked back along the main street of Woods Hole. “Where do you think we should go from here?” Gamay said. “Tough to say. Kurt only ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2010-06-10 | Author:Cussler, Clive [Clive, Cussler,]

“I'll be fine once I put my teeth back in my head.” “Glad to hear that. You'll need your dentures when we have dinner.” “Truly a man with a one-track ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-06-10 | Author:Cussler, Clive [Clive, Cussler,]

NUMA 4 - White Death 21 THE WORLD-FAMOUS marine historian and gourmand, St. Julien Perlmutter, was in an agony of ecstasy. He sat outside a three-hundred-year-old Tuscan villa whose shaded ...
( Category: Espionage March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Richard Hughes

III The promise he had given seemed simple enough to keep, to a child of ten. But the trouble was that Dick did not remain always a child of ten: ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1000-01-01 | Author:Dewey Lambdin [Lambdin, Dewey]

"Boat ahoy!" Midshipman Larkin had challenged two days following that drunken supper, and the youthful voice shouting in reply had drawn Lewrie to the deck. The turn-out for a foreign ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-02 | Author:Dewey Lambdin [Lambdin, Dewey]

Chapter 2 Perhaps it was just as well that Captain Horatio Nelson's sixty-four-gunned Agamemnon bore the word to Naples, Lewrie thought. With the French Mediterranean fleet captured in one fell ...
( Category: War & Military March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2001-05-14 | Author:Julian Stockwin [Stockwin, Julian]

It was Doud on the wheel when dawn broke; a clear, bracing dawn that saw the white-capped seas hurrying toward them under the strong breeze — exhilarating sailing weather. “Well, ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

* * * A MILITARY TALE THE DUEL I NAPOLEON I., whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe, disliked duelling between the officers of ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 26,2014 )

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