The Carlisle & Holbrooke Naval Adventures are being published in audio format, one book at a time, and the first thirteen books are already out there and being enjoyed. Meanwhile, David Lane Pusey has completed his narration of the fourteenth book, An Upright Man, and it’s now available from the usual places (Amazon, Audible, iTunes).

Even before Spain joined the war in early 1762, it was obvious that it wouldn’t have the strategic effect that the cousins, King Louis and King Charles, had hoped.  France needed a success to bring Britain to the negotiating table: nothing grand – Louis didn’t have the force for that – but something that would hurt the City of London in its pocket.

A raid on the Newfoundland fisheries would have an immediate financial impact. In normal times the dried cod provided an important dietary supplement to the population of the Atlantic basin and a steady stream of gold for the City’s coffers. The longer-lasting effect would come from the loss of the trained seamen that the fishery provided to the navy in time of war.

George Holbrooke’s frigate Argonaut is in the thick of the action as he is pitted against an old adversary.

SILKWORM!

Meanwhile, you might like to try Silkworm!This is a dramatized account of the Royal Navy’s operations in the Gulf Tanker War in 1988. It’s quite different to my Seven Years War books and neither Carlisle nor Holbrooke are involved. Silkworm! is a work of fiction, but its inspiration came from my own experiences as the Operations Officer of HMS Exeter, a guided missile destroyer, at the height of the tanker war.

Silkworm! is available from Amazon in Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and paperback.