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 of Tientsin, he must hold on against a torrent of frenzied Chinese warriors.

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 Burma, Blackwood goes to Alexandria as part of an elite unit, poised to strike the first blows against the Nazi fortress of mainland Europe.

With historical authenticity and the novelist's feel for detail, action, and emotion, Reeman brings the story of men at sea alive.

January, 1970, and the final chapter in the Blackwood history appears to have closed with the murder in Cyprus of Lt. Colonel Mike Blackwood. His son Ross is featured in this last book of the series.

It's the year: 1943. Now there was to be no more retreat for Britain and her Allies. At last the war was to be carried into enemy territory. And, from captured bases and makeshift harbours in North Africa, The Royal Navy's Special Force was to be the probe and the spearhead of the advance.

When the offshore island of Santu is threatened with invasion from the Chinese mainland, disgraced Commander Justin Rolfe and the condemned gunboat HMS Wagtail, are ordered to bring out the small British community.

With his own motor yacht, Sea Fox, former naval officer Philip Vivian sets out on a profitable - if legally dubious - adventure, proposed to him by an old comrade-in-arms. But he soon finds himself trapped in a treacherous web of violence and crime.

As the Second World War progresses, the destruction of Allied shipping mounts. Fighter pilot Tim Rowan is posted to an escort carrier to help guard the precious convoys. His adventures take him first to the Arctic and then the Indian Ocean.

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

January 1944 in the Indian Ocean, British ships are sinking due to a German armed raider, disguised to deceive unwary merchantmen. In Australia, HMS Andromeda has disengaged from the Nazis, and is now ready to put to sea, to seek and destroy the raider.