Sea Stories
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 | 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 |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 | | 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 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Valerie Martin [Martin, Valerie]

I didn’t tell Violet I was unwilling to help her, but I did point out the unlikelihood that I could. My employment, which she persisted in envying, was a hand-to-mouth ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:C.S. Forester

Chapter XIII The Sutherland had seen nothing of the Caligula during her long sweep south-westward. Hornblower had not wanted to, and, more, had been anxious not to. For it was ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Carol Birch

We took on supplies at the island of Formosa. There was a bird market, three dozen or so small, fat creatures, yellow, green and white, all crammed in one box, ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Alexander Kent

Adam Bolitho shifted slightly on the hot thwart to gaze at the full expanse of the anchorage as the gig pulled past the headland. Plenty of eyes must have observed ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1989-03-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian

CHAPTER SIX It was quite true: within two days of being immersed in eastern ways, climate, food, languages, faces, expressions, and forms of civility Fox was a different man, a ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-02-16 | Author:Robert V. S. Redick

20 Freala 941 129th day from Etherhorde At dawn the Chathrand was no longer alone. They had heard nothing, and seen no vessel approach for as long as there was ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Robert V. S. Redick

All this time Ensyl had waited in the ceiling of the darkened passage. Her people had once had a spy-hole beneath a cot in sickbay, but it had been deemed ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Robert V. S. Redick

They passed a night of great unease, and Hercól roused them all before sunrise. “Now more than ever, take care with the metal on your persons, lest it be seen ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-11-28 | Author:Dana Stabenow

ANCHORAGE KYLE WAITED UNTIL THE Hercules C-130 was in the air before he drove back to his office. He hung up his parka and stewed around a while before calling ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Arturo Perez-Reverte

TANGER and Coy had stopped near the bow of a small schooner. She was looking across the bay, where the skyline of Algeciras was sharp and dear. The water was ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )