Philip K. Allan Books in Order

Captain Alexander Clay joins the hunt for Napoleon’s missing fleet while a mysterious newcomer brings theft and murder aboard the Titan. As officers pursue the French, coxswain Able Sedgwick and his fellow sailors must investigate the threat within their own ship.

Alexander Clay earns his first command in the Caribbean and takes a small warship into operations against French-held St Lucia. A dangerous Spanish opponent, colonial politics, and an accusation of murder threaten both his mission and his newly established career.

Recovering from battle wounds, newly promoted Captain Alexander Clay takes command of a frigate scarred by mutiny. Rebuilding trust among angry sailors and corrupt officers becomes essential as he joins the blockade along Brittany’s treacherous coast.

In 1795, ambitious first lieutenant Alexander Clay serves aboard HMS Agrius during Britain’s war with France. Campaigns ashore, privateer hunts, and an Atlantic pursuit test his prospects for promotion while romance and his shipmates’ secrets complicate life at sea.

Captain Alexander Clay takes the frigate Griffin into the Baltic on a diplomatic mission threatened by Napoleon’s expanding alliances. Ice, enemy forces, palace intrigue, and a trained assassin push his crew beyond naval combat into the dangers of espionage.

A French squadron threatens Britain’s trade in the Indian Ocean, sending Alexander Clay and the Titan far from home. Encounters off West Africa revive his coxswain’s memories, while old enemies and betrayal challenge the captain’s mission in distant waters.

Alexander Clay undertakes a secret mission to support a royalist uprising in southern Brittany. Conflicting motives among its leaders and British agents draw him into deception, while an unusual recruit unsettles the familiar routines of the Titan’s lower deck.

Sent to recover a mutinous Royal Navy ship in the Caribbean, Alexander Clay discovers widespread corruption and smuggling. A concealed French warship threatens British commerce, while the mysterious recruit Larcum Mudge adds another uncertainty aboard the Griffin.

Renewed war pulls Alexander Clay and his dispersed crew back aboard the Griffin to pursue a French squadron eastward. Along India’s Malabar Coast, valuable merchant fleets and competing political interests complicate their hunt for the elusive Admiral Linois.

Returning from India, Alexander Clay and the Griffin encounter a major Franco-Spanish fleet heading toward the Caribbean. Drawn into a campaign crucial to Britain’s survival, captain and crew face decisions that carry them toward the Battle of Trafalgar.

After Trafalgar, Alexander Clay joins an expedition to regain control of the Cape and becomes embroiled in South American unrest. On the Rio de la Plata, revolutionaries, arms dealers, and his commander’s ambitions complicate a mission already threatened by the French.

Alexander Clay sails to Constantinople as Ottoman rulers reconsider their alliance with Britain. Court intrigue, French influence, mutinous troops, and disagreements among British commanders make diplomacy as hazardous as navigating the narrow approaches to the city.