Burning Harbour: Book 8 of the Nicholas Cruwys Naval Series

1793. Revolutionary France is collapsing into terror, civil war, and political violence. In the Mediterranean, Admiral Lord Hood and the Royal Navy watch for an opportunity that might change the course of the war.Captain Nicholas Cruwys is sent on quiet and unofficial work along the French coast, moving among royalist sympathisers, uncertain allies, and naval officers whose loyalties are becoming increasingly difficult to judge. What begins as intelligence work soon draws him into a dangerous struggle involving espionage, diplomacy, divided commands, and the fate of the French fleet itself.As armies gather around the great naval port of Toulon, Cruwys finds himself caught between British strategy, French royalist ambition, Spanish alliance politics, and the relentless advance of the Revolution. Around him stand men fighting for very different visions of France's future: British admirals, exiled nobles, republican officers, intelligence operatives, and a young artillery commander named Napoleon Buonaparte.Rich in naval detail and grounded in real events, Burning Harbour is a sweeping historical novel in the tradition of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester: a story of fleets and fortresses, intelligence and betrayal, honour, loyalty, and the violent struggle between the old world and the new. Read more