Douglas Reeman

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1971
  • Latest Book:
    July 2016
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Full Series List in Order

Royal Marines Saga

Badge of Glory (Jan-1984)
First To Land (Mar-1985)
The Horizon (Nov-2002)
Dust on the Sea (Mar-2003)
Knife Edge (Oct-2004)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • The Greatest Enemy

    Old and worn from service, the frigate Terrapin carried the ghosts of men she'd made and broken. She was on patrol in the still waters of the China Sea when she came under surprise attack -- by guerrillas ferrying fuel to a deadly submarine hovering ...

  • The Pride and the Anguish

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    Singapore, November, 1941 . . . They called it the "Gibraltar of the Far East" a British rock that could not be taken. But suddenly, in a lightning blow, Singapore may be defeated. Call it incompetence or call it false pride. It doesn't really matte...

  • Rendezvous: South Atlantic

    **Celebrating 100 years of Douglas Reeman. Discover the master of the naval adventure thriller.*******************************************************************************1941: the S.S. Benbecula is already old when she is turned into an armed mer...

  • The Hostile Shore

    Crammed with refugees, harried and bombed by enemy planes, the Sigli had struggled south in a desperate attempt to escape. Rupert Blair's family had been among the passengers on that fateful journey in which the ship and all aboard had disappeared. T...

  • Destroyers

    From the author of THE FIRST TO LAND, a novel set during the Second World War. They called them the Scrapyard Flotilla, after a quarter of a century of service, the eight destroyers had seen all kinds of action. Now they were to be used in raids to o...

  • Winged Escort

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    July 1943. As the grim years of the Second World War go by, the destruction of Allied shipping mounts. Out of the terrible loss of men and ships, the escort carrier is born. At twenty-six, fighter pilot Tim Rowan, RNVR, is already a veteran of many c...

  • The Last Raider

    December 1917: Germany opens the final, bitter round of the war with a new and deadly weapon in the struggle for the seas. When the Vulkan sails from Kiel Harbour, to all appearances she is a harmless merchant vessel. But her peaceful lines conceal a...

  • Surface With Daring

    Hiding, lying in wait on the sea bed, is EX16.Though one of the most important ships in the Royal Navy, she's not much to look at; she's only 54 feet long, with no defensive armament. But her four-man crew knows that the outcome of the war could depe...

  • Strike from the Sea

    Indo-China 1941, and cruising somewhere off Saigon is the world's largest, most dangerous submarine, the French Soufriere. The British navy must capture and use her in the defence of Singapore before she is used against them. For Commander Robert Ain...



  • Deep Silence

    March 1967: HMS Temeraire is Britain’s latest and most advanced nuclear submarine. But when the Temeraire’s trials are cut short and she is ordered to the Far East to reinforce the British fleet against a threat from Red China, Captain David Jerm...

  • A Ship Must Die

    Set at sea during the final years of the Second World War, a story about the final mission of a battered British cruiser. As the crew prepare to be directed to other duties, the ship's captain is ordered to seek out and destroy a disguised German war...

  • Torpedo Run

    It was in 1943. On the Black Sea, the Russians were fighting a desperate battle to regain control. But the Russians' one real weakness was on the water: whatever they did, the Germans did it better, and the daring hit-and-run tactics of the E-boats p...

  • Dive in the Sun

    The Allies are poised for the invasion of Italy. Yet the Germans hold a vital card: a floating dock, and it must be destroyed. Only one team can do the job and still stand a chance of surviving -- the crew of submarine XE.51....

  • Path of the Storm

    Hong Kong, 1960s: A US submarine-chaser and her captain become entangled with Vietnamese forces on the desolate island group of Payenhau....

  • Badge of Glory

    Royal Marines Saga

    Travel through Britain's military history with a proud seafaring family, the Blackwoods, and the service tradition in which they make their careers -- the Royal Marines. Captain Philip Blackwood of the Royal Marines rejoins his ship, the HMS Audaciou...

  • The Destroyer

  • His Majestys U-Boat

  • To Risks Unknown

    **Celebrating 100 years of Douglas Reeman. Discover the master of the naval adventure thriller.*************************************************************************************1943: Now there is to be no more retreat for Britain and her Allies.At...

  • Prayer for the Ship

    Small, quick-moving torpedo boats played a vital role in protecting the Allied convoys in the English Channel and the North Sea during World War II, and Sub-Lieutenant Clive Royce is newly assigned to MTB 1991, joining a crew already seasoned by deat...



  • First To Land

    Royal Marines Saga

    Captain David Blackwood is embroiled in the Boxer Rebellion. Ordered to escort a beautiful German countess on a dangerous journey up the Hoshun River, Blackwood sees death and slaughter unlike anything he has known. Finally, standing before the walls...

  • The Volunteers

    Sicily, 1943 ... They were the men and women of the Royal Navy's Special Operations units. Carrying out lightning raids on hostile coasts, they became a navy within a navy -- each hand-picked for their individual skills, and all of them courageous. A...

  • With Blood and Iron

    January 1944: On the vast grey waters of the Atlantic, the balance of power has shifted. For Rudolf Steiger, ace U-boat commander, there is a new sense of urgency. Dedicated, ruthless, and fanatical, he has become a legend in his own time, a symbol o...

  • Iron Pirate

    Surprise will be total. It will show the world what we can do. You will do it for Germany!' The crack German heavy cruiser Prinz Luitpold had always been lucky in battle. To the beleaguered army on the Baltic coast she was their one remaining symbol ...

  • In Danger's Hour

  • Go In and Sink!

    February 1943. As the balance of the war slowly shifts in Britain's favour, Lieutenant-Commander Steven Marshall brings his battle-scarred submarine into home port. Captain and crew are exhausted after fourteen months' continuous service, but...

  • HMS Saracen

    Malta 1941. To most people HMS Saracen is just an ugly, obsolete ship with an equally ugly recent history: her last commander is due for court-martial after shelling the troops he was sent to protect. But to Captain Richard Chesnaye she brings back m...

  • Battlecruiser

    It's 1943, and the seas are haunted by Hitler's deadly U-boats and cruisers. After the mysterious death of the Reliant's last captain, Guy Sherbrooke is given command of the legendary battlecruiser. A symbol of everything the Royal Navy stands for, t...

  • The Horizon

    Royal Marines Saga

    World War I, 1915, Jonathan Blackwood fights from the sea, supported by the Royal Navy in the battlefields of the Dardanelles and Gallipoli, watching the slaughter mounting around him, helpless to save either himself or his men. The days of the scarl...

  • Dust on the Sea

    Royal Marines Saga

    The Mediterranean, 1943: At long last the British Army has won a victory, and Rommel's Afrika Korps is in retreat. Into this new phase of the war comes Captain Mike Blackwood, Royal Marine Commando. Already bloodied in the disastrous retreat from Bur...



  • Twelve Seconds to Live

    The mine is an impartial killer, and defusing it requires steady nerves, steady hands, and an intrepid flirtation with death. Haunted by the mine that destroyed his first command, H.M. Submarine Tornado, Lieutenant-Commander David Masters now defuses...

  • White Guns

    It's Spring 1945 and the war has ended in Europe, but the hate and devastation linger on. Lieutenant Vere Marriott of the Royal Navy, and the men of Motor Gunboat 801 are moored in Kiel harbor, witness to the disintegration of the mighty German n...

  • Knife Edge

    Royal Marines Saga

    After the murder of his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Mike Blackwood, Ross Blackwood finds himself assigned to the Far East, taking on rebels and illegal-arms dealers in Hong Kong and Malaysia. Along the way he meets another Blackwood, his cousin Steve,...

  • For Valour

    Odds are long for the British destroyers assigned to escort vital northern convoys through the bitter Arctic Sea in the bloodiest days of WWII. Commander Graham Martineau, still haunted by the loss of his ship and crew to Nazi destroyers, must take o...

  • Sunset

    1941. To the residents and defense forces of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong, the war in Europe remains remote. Even the massive build-up of Japanese forces on the Chinese border cannot dent their carefree optimism. Yet one man suspects the truth. Lieu...

  • Killing Ground

    Tasked to protect the vital, threatened Merchant Navy convoys in the Western Approaches, Howard finds himself in the middle of the Battle of the Atlantic -- a full-scale war that was a relentless, savage battle against an ever-present enemy and a vio...

  • The Glory Boys

    **Celebrating 100 years of Douglas Reeman. Discover the master of the naval adventure thriller.**********************************************************************************They're called The Glory Boys, by those who regard their exploits with en...

  • High Water

    With his own boat, the motor yacht Sea Fox, former naval officer Philip Vivian had hoped to earn a living free from the petty restrictions of everyday life, close to the sea he loved. Now, however, his dream is threatened by financial difficulties. S...

  • Send a Gunboat

    HMS Wagtail is a river gunboat, a ship seemingly at the end of her useful life, lying in a Hong Kong dockyard awaiting her last summons to the breakers' yard. Commander Justin Rolfe is also seemingly at the end of his useful naval life, an embittered...

  • A Dawn Like Thunder

    Burmese Coast, 1944 . . . After four years, the tide of war is turning in North Africa and Europe. The conflict in Southeast Asia, however, has reached new heights of savagery. The Special Operations mission off the Burmese coast requires volunteers....



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Douglas Reeman has published 39 books.

Douglas Reeman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Dawn Like Thunder, was published in July 2016.

The first book by Douglas Reeman, The Greatest Enemy, was published in January 1971.

Yes. Douglas Reeman has 1 series.
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