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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Company's Ocean: Book 10 of the Nicholas Cruwys Naval SeriesIn the year 1794, an East Indiaman is taken in the Strait of Sunda by French warships that knew her name, and knew exactly where to wait.The war of the French Revolution has reached the farthest ocean. Fresh from the Glorious First of June, Captain Nicholas Cruwys of the Royal Navy and the frigate Topaze are ordered east - to waters he last sailed as a young officer bound for Canton, a decade and a war ago. The harbours are the ones he remembers. Nothing else is.For this is the Company's ocean now: the East India Company, a power greater than most kingdoms, with its own armies, its own courts, its own justice. Somewhere inside its vast machinery, something rotten enough to feed French cruisers that are never quite where chance alone would put them. From Bombay to Madras to the coasts beyond, Nicholas must fight the King's war in an ocean where the King's writ runs thin, with the woman he loves and a daughter he has never seen half the world astern in Lisbon.The Company's Ocean delivers everything readers of classic Age of Sail fiction come aboard for: frigate actions and a boarding fought hand to hand, storm and monsoon seamanship, blue-water navigation and convoy work, prize courts and prize money, spies, ciphers and secret orders, governors, admirals and great merchant houses, the wardroom and the lower deck - the whole wooden world of the eighteenth-century Royal Navy rendered in exacting period detail, from the Admiralty Board Room in Whitehall to the great harbours of British India. Meticulously researched historical naval fiction set among the true events of the French Revolutionary Wars in the Indian Ocean: the honourable East India Company at the height of its power, the corsairs of the Ile de France, the VOC - the Dutch East India Company - in its final years, and a Royal Navy squadron stretched across half the world. Sea battles, seamanship, espionage, romance, and the quiet war of money and paper that could break a captain faster than any broadside.The tenth novel of the Nicholas Cruwys Naval Series - and a complete, full-length story that may be read entirely on its own. The series follows Nicholas Cruwys from his first voyage under Captain Cook to post rank and command of a King's frigate: through the American Revolutionary War and the Battle of the Saintes, the Mediterranean and the Barbary Coast, Constantinople and the Baltic, revolutionary Paris and the Terror, the Glorious First of June, and now the Indian Ocean - ten full-length sea adventures spanning the golden age of fighting sail, for readers of the Aubrey-Maturin novels and the Hornblower saga, and for anyone who loves British naval history, Georgian England, tall ships, and the great age of sail. Authentic navigation and gunnery, real Admiralty politics, and the language of the sea as it was spoken - historical fiction without anachronism, in which friendship, honour, love and duty weigh as heavily as iron and oak. Amidst the vast reaches of the East, a naval commander must navigate treacherous waters where corporate corruption and enemy warships conspire to ambush merchant vessels. Duty and survival collide in a world of espionage and broadsides! This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. First of June: Book 9 of the Nicholas Cruwys Naval SeriesCaptain Nicholas Cruwys brings the frigate Topaze home from the Mediterranean with a handful of officers he trusts, a French-built hull in need of refit, and no prize money to speak of. By spring she must be ready for the Channel Fleet.France is starving. A great grain convoy is crossing the Atlantic to feed her, the fleet at Brest is fitting out to see it home, and Lord Howe, old, patient and much criticised for both, means to bring that fleet to battle.There is no time for a gentle beginning. Topaze goes to sea with a scratch crew, half of them strangers to the other half, and is sent straight to the French coast to learn her trade within sight of the enemy. What follows is a season of hard sea service: actions won and chances lost, a green company slowly becoming a ship's company, and then the long, blind search ahead of the fleet as the two great forces hunt for each other across the open Atlantic.Ashore there are reckonings of a different kind. Money is running short, and the life Cruwys has made outside the bounds of his marriage is not one London society is willing to forgive.Then, far out in the Atlantic, the fleets find each other at last, and as the first great fleet action of the war with Revolutionary France draws near, Cruwys learns that Lord Howe has a part for him that no frigate captain expects. A weary naval commander must transform a makeshift crew and a worn vessel into a fighting force before a massive maritime clash decides the fate of a starving nation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Treason's Edge: Book 11 of the Nicholas Cruwys Naval SeriesIn January of 1796, the richest convoy to leave Bombay in a twelvemonth sails early, by a track nobody watches, with a single frigate to guard it. Her course has already been sold.Captain Nicholas Cruwys knows it. He is the bait. Eighteen months in the East have made him the most celebrated captain east of the Cape, and taught him that the French cruisers which take the Company's ships are never where chance alone would put them; in a Bombay lane a young midshipman died beside him for what he had learned. Now, with the Company's silver for the lure and Topaze alone in plain sight, Nicholas and the men who sent him mean to make the enemy show his hand.It is a long way home. Across the Indian Ocean, round the Cape and up the length of the Atlantic to a winter anchorage at Spithead, Nicholas must fight the King's war and bring his ship and his people through it, knowing that whatever he learns at sea will have to be carried to London, to men who would rather not hear it. For the treason has an English end, and it is nearer to him than he can bear to think.Ship-to-ship action, prize courts and intrigue, monsoon and Southern Ocean seamanship, and the Royal Navy's wooden world rendered in exacting period detail - Treason's Edge is the eleventh novel of the Nicholas Cruwys Naval Series, and may be read on its own. Age of Sail historical naval fiction grounded in the true history of the Royal Navy, the East India Company, and the French Revolutionary Wars in the Indian Ocean. A celebrated naval commander acts as bait for a high-stakes convoy, only to realize the betrayal threatening his mission reaches deep into the heart of his own nation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…