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1914 and the start of WW1, the Royal Navy has a tiny, fledgling air service with a small number of unreliable and underperforming aircraft, with no real clue about how to use them. Four years later, they had thousands of fighters including the best of the war, hundreds of seaplanes and the ships to carry them and hundreds of airships patrolling for submarines. They had been used at sea and overland from the Dardanelles to the Western Front and the Mediterranean. Bob Hunt was one of those early aviators. His story and that of his friend Arnold St John-Stevens form the narrative of how the ...

Hitler has little time left but the Japanese are not going down without a fight. Newly promoted Lieutenant Commander John Hunt returns to flying duties after his accident in the Mediterranean. Along with his friend Freddie St John Stevens, he is tasked to evaluate two new American fighters that the fleet Air Arm are desperate to acquire. Once back in England he is appointed to be the Commanding Officer of 1854 Hellcat Squadron which is forming up in Northern Ireland. Once operational, they take part in Operation Tungsten, the FAA attack on the Tirpitz. Meanwhile his wife who is flying for ...

This is the eighth book in the 'Jon Hunt' series based on the Royal Navy and events of recent years. HMS Formidable is the Royal Navy’s newest aircraft carrier. Captain Jonathon Hunt has been given command. He has the uphill struggle of getting a new and untried machine of war into service and then is almost immediately faced with a major crisis. A massive mineral discovery in a small African republic has led to a potential confrontation. With both Navy and Air Force Harriers embarked, Jon and his new ship are the only hope for a group of innocent hostages. Not an Amazon review but a ...

The unsung story of superb naval ingenuity and heroism that came close to making the battle of Trafalgar unnecessary. If it hadn’t been for a drunken naval officer and a minor earthquake history would have been forever changed. 1803 and the Royal Navy dominate the Caribbean. However, Commodore Samuel Hood is short of ships. Diamond Rock is a small volcanic plug in the sea south of Martinique. Despite his men’s misgivings and against almost insurmountable odds, he lands a garrison and places cannon on the top. The Honourable Mathew Turner is in the Caribbean on a diplomatic mission and ...

Flying in the Royal Navy during the Cold War was demanding and dangerous, it became even more so as war went Hot in1982 when the Argentinians invaded the Falklands. This is the personal account of one man’s experience of those turbulent times. Larry Jeram-Croft obtained a Cadetship to join the Royal Navy whilst still at school. Guaranteed entry, he then dedicated his teenage years to girls and motorbikes and put off worrying about his future. Somehow, he obtained enough A levels to be accepted and so with no better idea, he joined up. Despite the distractions of girls, sailing, racing ...

This is the ninth book in the 'Jon Hunt' series based on the Royal Navy and events of recent years. The terrorist attack in New York on 9/11 starts a chain reaction that alters the balance of power in the Middle East. Jon Hunt, having left command of the Formidable and newly promoted to Commodore is thrust into the middle of events just as the allies invade Iraq looking for Weapons of Mass Destruction. But do they even exist? Why is the British Government so convinced that they do? He is given the task of finding them despite his personal misgivings over the war. What he discovers is a ...

1805, the year Napoleon plans to invade England and the year Jacaranda and her crew have to return to in order to rescue Smithy the scientist, whose experiments have sent him back to England of the past. They meet up with their friends Charles and Melissa as well as Sir Sydney Smith, a renowned naval officer and Robert Fulton the man who invented the world’s first workable submarine, the Nautilus. However, nothing is simple and in order to return to their future they must sail Jacaranda to Cadiz where the combined French and Spanish fleets are sheltering. Here they must help Sir Sydney to...

The second book in the ‘Jacaranda’ trilogy:Jack Vincent and his girlfriend Emma return to England to help British Government Scientists to understand what they had learned by travelling back in time. The cause is known but not understood. It was due to a wartime experiment that failed. They are asked to go back again at the next opportunity to try to recover material from the ship that disappeared.Once again, Jacaranda returns to the past but is almost wrecked in a hurricane and due to a miscalculation, arrives off Guadeloupe in 1794 at the height of the Reign of Terror, which has just ...

The Gulf at the end of the eighties is a powder keg. The war between Iran and Iraq may be over but tension in the whole region remains high. Having been forced reluctantly to the negotiating table, Iran is still looking for revenge. The Frigate HMS Prometheus is tasked to maintain the safety of British interests in the area as part of the Armilla patrol. Now commanded by the newly promoted Commander Jonathon Hunt with his friend Brian Pearce as his Operations officer, they are thrust into a situation that requires all their courage and ingenuity. The threat of ‘Bog Hammers’, small armed...

The village that Time ignored. A tale of swans, local myths, and mayhem. A year in the life of the not always sleepy Somerset village of Blackney Foloren. Separated from the outside world by the infamous Somerset Levels, Blackney is a place which the modern world has overlooked for centuries, where the inhabitants conduct themselves to their entire satisfaction but not a great deal usually happens. However, they are about to have their feathers seriously ruffled, as this tale takes flight with several rather peculiar goings on. As with any small village, there is a pub, a shop, a church, a ...

The Windward and Leeward Islands of the Caribbean. Playground to the rich. However, there is something very unusual out to the west. The locals know but seldom talk about it. Jack Vincent and his superyacht ‘Jacaranda’ stumble on the secret and he and his crew learn the truth. They rescue a man from the past and attempt to take him home, over two hundred years back in time. Set in the present day and the time of Nelson, ‘Jacaranda’ mixes these two worlds in an adventure story that reaches its climax just as one of the Caribbean’s worst natural disasters occurs. But what would you ...

America is being flooded with drugs and the US Coast Guard can’t find out why. HMS Chester is in the Caribbean conducting trials and is tasked to aid a new anti drugs Task Force. Helicopter pilot, Lieutenant Commander Jonathon Hunt and his Observer Brian Pearce become involved when it is decided that the war needs to be taken to the enemy. The strength of the British and American military is pitted against the ingenuity of the Columbian drug smuggling cartels and results in a dramatic confrontation off the coast of Columbia.

A prequel to the bestselling Jon Hunt series based on the actual war time experiences of one man. It’s 1939 and war with Germany is inevitable. Already qualified as a pilot, John Hunt can see the writing on the wall and decides to join the Royal Naval Air Service. He goes through the training system but at the end is asked to volunteer for service with the RAF who are desperately short of pilots as the Battle of Britain ramps up. At the same time Heather, his fiancé, joins the Air Transport Auxiliary and also qualifies as a war time pilot.

The Battle of Britain is over but the war has only just started. Sub Lieutenant Hunt has returned to the Fleet Air Arm. After learning to to fly the new naval Martlet fighter, he helps pass on some of his combat experience at the new Air Station at Yeovilton before going to sea in HMS Audacious one of two merchantmen converted to small aircraft carriers to protect convoys. Meanwhile, his Fiancé Heather is flying regularly for the Air Transport Auxiliary but is also drawn into the world of the Secret Intelligence Service. John is then re- appointed to 863 Squadron flying Martlets off the ...

The City of Winchester has long been associated with King Arthur. In the alternative city that only Tony Peterson can travel to, some people are taking the legends far too seriously. King Arthur's massive Round Table has even been stolen from the City's Great Hall. Having just got married, Tony only travels over to sort out his finances but is immediately drawn into a conspiracy to set the British Empire against the Germans and Russians. Once again, he ends up helping his friend, Inspector Frank Cosgrove to try and unravel what is going on before it is too late. Nothing is as it seems and ...

This is the tenth novel in the successful 'Jon Hunt series about the modern Royal Navy: Retirement does not suit Commodore Jon Hunt. He is enticed back into the navy to teach young pilots how to fly. However, the plans of a Saudi Prince, who is hell bent on destroying the relationship between his country and the West soon drag Jon back into action. Taking command of the 'Swan Song' a superyacht converted into a covert intelligence gathering ship, Jon is soon not only confronting the Russian navy but also ghosts from his past.

The Earth is rapidly getting too small. Predictions clearly show that within a few generations there won’t be enough room or resources and something will have to give. Mike Lawson, grieving for the loss of his wife and son in a tragic accident, is given the opportunity to do something about it. It seems that life has developed on Earth before and has left behind an entity of tremendous power who wants to help. Mike is asked to provide the human element. He forms a small team who work together to nudge humanity towards a solution before Armageddon occurs. But even with almost God like ...

The seventh novel in the series, charting the career of Jonathon Hunt in the Royal Navy during the turbulent times of the end of the twentieth century. 1995, the vicious war in the fragmented former Republic of Yugoslavia is moving to an end game. The United Nations have troops and observers in the country but are finding it impossible to act. Thrust into the maelstrom of rape, murder and ethnic cleansing, the newly promoted Captain Jonathon Hunt joins the UN Protection Force UNPROFOR and finds himself being drawn into the struggle. The only way the war is going to end is if the might of ...

Three days in 1991 that changed the world. Commander Jonathon Hunt has been appointed as Assistant Defence Attaché to the British Embassy in Moscow just as President Gorbachev’s reforms are causing a constitutional crisis. That summer, a coup whilst Gorbachev is on holiday, nearly destabilises the whole world. Jon, together with his colleague Rupert Thomas from MI6 are caught up in a race against time to help end the Cold War forever. This is the sixth novel charting the career of Jonathon Hunt during the turbulent times at the end of the twentieth century. Once again the real facts of ...

Lieutenant Jonathon Hunt (Sea Skimmer) has been appointed to a Commando Helicopter Squadron operating in Northern Norway. It is the height of the Cold War and the Soviets have discovered a secret NATO submarine listening station hidden in the Arctic Ice. They would like to do something about it but cannot come up with a method of attack until they decide on the use of an Ekranoplan. This massive machine known to NATO as the ‘Caspian Monster’ can get them in and out fast enough to give them the deniability they need.