John Wingate Books in Order

Young Peter Sinclair leaves Channel convoy duty for the submarine HMS Rugged and the siege of Malta. Mines, depth charges, and a rescue mission behind enemy lines give him a brutal first taste of undersea war.

Promoted to first lieutenant aboard HMS Rugged, Peter Sinclair helps strike Axis convoys from Malta. With oxygen running low and enemy destroyers pressing hard, the crew must survive both the patrol and a covert mission ashore.

Now captain of HMS Rugged, Peter Sinclair hunts the force attacking British submarines in the eastern Mediterranean. A murdered agent and a coded message pull him toward a hidden enemy base and a risky commando mission.

Peter Sinclair returns to sea in one of Britain's first nuclear submarines. Sent to stop gun-running and a Communist-backed revolt in the Caribbean, he faces sabotage, divided loyalties, and his most dangerous command yet.

When reports place a supposedly dead Nazi war criminal in Hamburg, Peter Sinclair is sent to investigate. A Baltic exercise becomes a race against time involving a missing officer, a strange ship, and a looming catastrophe.

During the run-up to the Taranto raid, Bill Tanner risks his career by defying orders under fire. With a court-martial hanging over him, he looks to combat, and courage, for a way back.

Bill Tanner returns in the desperate fight for Crete in 1941. As German paratroopers descend and Allied defenses crumble, he is swept into one of the war's fiercest and most chaotic battles.

After his submarine sinks in mysterious circumstances, Peter Sinclair is court-martialed and sent to uncover the truth. An ocean survey mission in the Sumba Straits soon turns into a Cold War hunt for spies.

This account of the English Channel war follows the long grind of coastal fighting from 1939 to 1943. Wingate shows how convoys, small craft, and constant danger turned narrow waters into a brutal frontline.

Wingate's history of the Tenth Submarine Flotilla tells how Malta-based British boats struck Axis shipping during World War II. It is a close, practical account of one of the Royal Navy's hardest and most dangerous campaigns.

Before the war, Peter Sinclair goes to sea as a Merchant Navy cadet. Long voyages, hard weather, and the rough realities of shipboard life shape the young man who will later become Submariner Sinclair.

In a near-future Cod War, British trawler skipper Hooky Walker defies Iceland's expanded fishing limits. What begins as a dangerous standoff at sea builds into a bleak struggle over livelihood, pride, and ruin.

A secret patrol ends in catastrophe when a nuclear submarine is torn apart and sinks in Arctic waters. Trapped survivors face dwindling oxygen and the bitter irony that only their enemies may be able to save them.

Oil off Scotland promises jobs and money, but the new boom brings sabotage and political tension. As a huge offshore platform nears completion, questions of security, progress, and cost become impossible to ignore.

Captain Bill Gratton must guide an oil tanker through the packed, fogbound Dover Straits. One mistake could mean collision, fire, and an environmental disaster in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.

When a coup threatens the British Bank in Beirut, Dirk Trevellack and Kim Quintan flee with vital codes. Hunted across Europe, they face ruthless pursuers, rough country, and a desperate race to deliver the documents.

Told through the diary of Soviet officer Alexei Slepak, this novel follows rising unrest aboard a Russian naval vessel. Low morale, political pressure, and private loyalties build toward a dangerous mutiny at sea.

Tim Simkins and his fiancee Cherry Hok buy an old sampan and stumble into danger in the Malacca Strait. Pirates, terrorists, and crowded sea lanes turn their plans for a new life into a violent fight for survival.

Professional diver David Krivine lands a crucial contract on Leviathan, a giant nuclear-powered supertanker. Then he learns he has been used in a deadly scheme, and the English Channel may pay the price.

This historical novel follows William of Normandy from his troubled youth to the conquest of England. Family rivalries, shifting loyalties, and brutal warfare shape his rise to the throne and the remaking of a kingdom.

During the siege of Malta, Lieutenant John Carbis joins HMS Urgent and the famed Fighting Tenth. Cut off by mines, patrols, and relentless enemy pressure, he must prove himself in one of the war's harshest submarine campaigns.

As the conflict deepens, Pascoe Trevellion moves to the carrier Furious. Soviet attacks on Atlantic sea lanes turn a naval crisis into a wider and more dangerous struggle, with the threat of nuclear war hanging over every decision.

Captain Pascoe Trevellion takes command of HMS Icarus as Cold War tensions spike. A clash with a Soviet submarine pushes a NATO exercise toward open war in the freezing waters off northern Norway.

With nuclear war edging closer, an aging NATO submarine is sent on what looks like a suicide mission. Deep under polar waters, the crew must lure out a far stronger Soviet boat and somehow survive the encounter.

In a future shaped by fuel shortages, a round-the-world race tests sail-assisted commercial ships. Race observer Jason Mercer soon realizes sabotage, greed, and violent rivalry may be deadlier than weather, ice, or the open ocean.

This historical collection gathers Revolutionary era sermons that linked faith and politics in colonial America. With notes and a substantial introduction, it shows how ministers framed liberty, resistance, and independence from the pulpit.

This true crime investigation revisits the disappearance of three boys in Hannibal, Missouri. Blending research, witness testimony, and paranormal inquiry, it argues they were murdered, not lost in the caves, and explores a possible link to John Wayne Gacy.