Call of the Sea Books in Order

Nick Turnhouse continues his rapid rise from farmhand to naval officer, learning how much he still needs from older seamen and patrons. Promotion, prize money, and unrest below decks make command far more complicated.

Dorset farmhand Nick Turnhouse flees home with almost nothing and is tricked into naval service. At sea he discovers strength, brains, and a dangerous chance to rise far beyond the life planned for him.

Bloody Nick takes an experimental heavy frigate to the Mediterranean after the Battle of the Nile. The ship sails badly, the prizes tempt him, and too much risk could ruin everything.

Nick Turnhouse returns from convoy duty to find his Caribbean station changed and his old patron gone. Sent to escort valuable ships home, he must face French intelligence and his own inexperience as a young captain.

Nick Turnhouse rides his reputation as Bloody Nick to Gibraltar, where new missions and a useful patron await. A powerful ship, a tall lady, and fresh risks complicate his rise.

Nick Turnhouse’s knowledge of the Bight of Benin makes him valuable to the Admiralty and dangerous to himself. Surviving feverish waters once is luck, twice makes him an expert.

Britain needs ships and Denmark has them, but taking a neutral fleet demands a sacrifice of honour. Nick Turnhouse must help make perfidy useful before France can benefit.

With the Peace of Amiens over, Sir Nicholas Turnhouse returns to Hawke and sails for the Indian Ocean. Home happiness pulls one way, prize money and duty pull another.

Nick Turnhouse is sent from Bombay to alarm Spanish possessions across the Pacific, but his stores run short before the voyage begins. Capturing food may matter as much as victory.

Nick Turnhouse remains in a chaotic Mediterranean, where French defeats, Ottoman decline, Spanish confusion, and Barbary rovers create rich opportunities. Luck helps, but taking too many chances has consequences.

The Mediterranean is too large and too troubled for the fleet assigned to it. Nick Turnhouse becomes a naval fireman, sent from one crisis to another as Spain and piracy burn.

Sir Nicholas Turnhouse is now a senior captain expected to think beyond blind obedience. Spain’s crisis gives him a Mediterranean mission where British interests and local factions rarely align.

Nick Turnhouse’s later command places him in the powerful razee Saturn as war in the Mediterranean intensifies. Reputation, prize money, and the Captain’s List all press on his choices.

Post Captain Sir Nicholas Turnhouse, commanding Saturn, eyes promotion while supporting British operations in Spain. Destroying French power may be the only aid he can truly offer.

As the war at sea wanes, Nick Turnhouse faces halfpay, the American conflict, Napoleon’s return, and one final dangerous blockade. Peace proves almost as uncertain as war.

Jeremy Barnham Walker runs to sea after killing an earl’s son in an unlawful duel at fourteen. Service under Bloody Nick makes him an officer, but respectability ashore proves difficult.