Martin Devereux, one of the world's top twelve-meter helmsmen, has just watched half a million pounds worth of boat slip into the Tasman Sea, taking his shot at the America's Cup with it. Back home in Marshcote, on the English coast, there's big trou...
The racing trimaran Street Express is anchored in a gale off the coast of southern Ireland. Jimmy Dixon, widower, single father and timber yard owner, and his long-time friend Ed Boniface are championship sailors. Tragedy strikes when the third crew ...
While living on an old wooden boat in England, former reporter Bill Tyrell is drawn back into his violent past by the death of a young Estonian man and an attempt on his own life. Reprint. NYT. ...
After English poet and bird-watcher George Devis sees his family massacred in Ethiopia, he begins a quest for vengeance and explanations that leads him into a cross-Atlantic sailing race and the discovery of a huge conspiracy...
The surviving commandos are sent on a perilous journey through the Pyrenees to disable the greatest threat to the impending D-Day landings: the 'Werwolf' U-boats. But their Basque guides declare it mission impossible â€" D-Day is less than six days a...
Following on in Alistair MacLean’s footsteps, Sam Llewellyn, an enthralling storyteller in his own right, has produced another riveting sequel to the classic adventures The Guns of Navarone and Force 10 From NavaroneMallory, Andrea and Miller reuni...
Hired to captain the rusty old Glory of Saipan, full of illegal immigrants bound for California, Jenkins finds that unless he obeys the rules of this Iron Hotel - violence OK, sex with the cargo OK, but no falling in love - he will end up with a dead...
The Walton-Jones family have inherited a beautiful garden set on an island off the southwestern tip of England. Upon digging up a skeleton that could be an archaeological find or a murder victim, a series of events unfolds that shatters their idyll....
When David Walker, an Experimental Psychologist, saves one of his pupils from drowning it is the beginning of a brief but passionate affair. Two years later, Helen Costelloe writes to him out of the blue from Ireland. Married in the interim, her husb...
Having always been cared for by nannies, the Darling children are no strangers to dealing with the strict people who venture in and out of their lives, but when the latest employee turns out to be a member of a notorious burglar ring, Daisy, Primose,...
Shipwrecked on a tropical island, members of the Darling family find themselves surrounded by burglars, unsavory real estate developers, and a wild boy. By the author of
The land of Lyonesse is sinking, and the sea batters its walls; it has become a place of poison and danger, and its people live in an uneasy truce with the monsters that inhabit its bottomless Wells. Idris Limpet is an ordinary boy, until the day...
What do you mean you've never heard of Death Eric? Eric Thrashmettle is only, like, the singer and lead guitarist of the most famous and influential rock band ever known. Ask your dad. Eric has two kids: Lulubelle Flower Fairy and Living Buddha Thras...
The follow-up to "The Well Between the Worlds" continues Llewellyn's retelling of the legend of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. This fast-paced, masterfully written tale is filled with the timeless themes of honor, bravery, freedom, a...
Gavin Chance has been a policeman and an Olympic sailor. Now he is a yacht broker, and things are not going smoothly. His crooked partner has disappeared, someone has left a corpse on a stolen trawler, and he needs to identify the perpetr...
When the rudder of a boat he designed is rumored to have caused the accident that killed his brother and another man, Charlie Agutter invites the prominent members of Poulteney's yachting scene for a demonstration in a sister craft, with near-disastr...
The quaint village of Pulteney in Devon, England, depends upon the sea for its existence. The launch of a brand new, cutting-edge design yacht is therefore a major occasion, and fittingly the Arc-en-ciel is named with due ceremony by the French Ambas...