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The Royal Navy Lynx
This book tells the story of an incredibly capable naval aircraft, based primarily on the words of those who flew and maintained it. Beginning with the Lynx's entry into service in 1976, it goes on to discuss its remarkable performance in the Falklands War. Here it was used in both its primary roles of anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, as well as several others for which it had never been designed, such as Airborne Early Warning and anti-Exocet missile counter measures. The Lynx has been continuously employed in the Gulf from 1980 until the present day. What is not generally known is the fact that these aircraft were responsible for effectively destroying the Iraqi navy, sinking over ...
Sea Skimmer
How do you counter your own weapon system when it's turned against you? The Falklands War posed just this problem. January 1982 and the Exocet sea skimming missile is a killer. The British should know, they co-developed it with the French. However, the Argentinians have them as well. Marcel Bertrand a French missile expert, who has been made redundant, is recruited to help them. 2 April 1982, Argentina invades the Falklands. Soon after, Lieutenant Jon Hunt flies his Lynx helicopter from HMS Prometheus with a Special Forces team to covertly infiltrate the Argentinian Air base at Rio Grande. His mission is to persuade Marcel who has been kept in the dark about the invasion, to agree to work fo...
Jacaranda
The volcanic Windward and Leeward islands form the eastward fringe of the Caribbean Sea. In years gone by they were responsible for more wealth generation and human misery than anywhere else in the modern world. Nowadays they are the playground of 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. What would you say, if invited to dinner by Captain Horatio Nelson?
The St Cross Mirror
How would you cope with discovering an alternative version of your home town complete with an alternative girlfriend?A totally unexpected inheritance turns Tony Peterson's life upside down. He retires from the Metropolitan Police and returns to his home city of Winchester. There, not only does he meet Carrie, a girl from his past but he also discovers something out of this world in the house he has inherited in the St Cross area of the city. A mirror in his study can transport him to another version of Winchester, to a world where World War One never happened. When one of the first friends he makes in the new world is brutally murdered, he steps in to help the local police solve the crime. Can he use his expertise and knowledge to help solve the crime in a world radically different to his own?This is the first in the series 'The Winchester Chronicles'.
Arapaho
Beirut, a city in chaos. After their embassy is bombed, the British decide on a full evacuation and call on the newly formed 844 Naval Air Squadron of Sea King helicopters led by Lieutenant Commander Jonathon Hunt, to conduct the operation. Embarking on the experimental Royal Fleet Auxiliary 'Arapaho', the squadron almost complete their dangerous task when Jon Hunt's aircraft is shot down and he is taken hostage. Although a rescue is mounted, events move swiftly as a British Cruise ship is seized at sea bringing about a confrontation which only Jon and his squadron can resolve. Based on real events of the 1980s and the author's own military experience, Arapaho is the fourth novel about Jon Hunt, Brian Pearce and the modern Royal Navy.
The Royal Navy Wasp
This book tells the story of the first helicopter in the world designed from the outset to be deployed at sea, in Destroyers and Frigates. It is primarily based on the words of those who operated it. Designed from the outset to cope with the restricted space of a warship both for stowage and flight operations it proved an immediate success. Its original role was to act as a weapon carrier to launch torpedoes and depth charges on submarine contacts out of range of the parent ships weapons range. Soon, it also took on a second primary role of air to surface attack using wire guided missiles. The flexibility of the machine was such that it was able to conduct a plethora of secondary roles from ...
Nautilus
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 entice the French out to sea where Nelson's fleet is waiting. Many of the French also want the confrontation and with the aid of the Nautilus a daring raid on Cadiz harbour is undertaken. Once again the story is based on real events and characters of the time.
Siren
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 powers, how do you actually do that, without triggering the disaster you are trying to avert?
Cocaine
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 smuggler cartels and results in a dramatic confrontation off the coast of Columbia. This is the third novel following the career of Jonathon Hunt during the turbulent times of the late twentieth century.
The Caspian Monster
One year after the Falklands War and the world seems a safer place. Unfortunately 1983 is the year WW3 almost happened. Staggeringly, it was only afterwards that the truth came to light, that the Russians actually went to full Nuclear Alert and came so very close to starting Armageddon. To this day most of the worlds population know nothing about it. 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 th...
