Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (157p) ISBN 978-0-312-11444-2
Fans of McCutchan's hero Donald Cameron will be diverted by this flashback to his first adventure as an officer. A brand-new sub-lieutenant on the destroyer Wharfedale, Cameron (Cameron's Raid is part of the Allied effort to supply besieged Malta in
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Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-312-35662-0
Lieut. St. Vincent Halfhyde RN (inactive) had best take care: this is the second book (after The Halfhyde Line) in which he is not in control of his ship. At the start of the Boer War, Halfhyde is pressed back into service, this time as skipper of...
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Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (163p) ISBN 978-0-312-00603-7
St. Vincent Halfhyde, merchant sea-captain and ex-Royal Navy officer, has been called back to the colors in the Boer War to guard a consignment of naval gunnery being sent to help General Buller lift the siege of Ladysmith. A shipment of gold...
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Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $13.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-312-01008-9
Away from the Battle of the Atlantic, Donald Cameron is now captain of HMS Caithness, a destroyer on patrol in the Bay of Bengal. Learning of a Japanese convoy bound for Burma with a liner full of British POWs slated for slave labor, Cameron goes...
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Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (187p) ISBN 978-0-312-02178-8
As commodore in charge of a large troop convoy from Australia to America in 1942, John Mason Kemp, seen here in his third outing, must not only shepherd men and ships halfway around the world but also safeguard a mysterious canvas bag holding top-sec
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Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-312-02532-8
For almost a third of this WW II naval adventure, the crew of the British light cruiser Castile are in the dark as to the ship's mission. Lt.-Commander Donald Cameron, heading a smaller-than-usual crew, takes the Castile from Portsmouth on England's
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Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-03310-1
In his fourth appearance ( Convoy South ), Commodore John Mason Kemp shepherds a convoy from Britain to Alexandria and on to Ceylon. Troops for Montgomery's planned push in the desert and food for besieged Malta are the main responsibilities for the
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Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-312-05065-8
The military-series genre hasn't a finer craftsman than McCutchan (the Halfhyde and Cameron books). The fifth in the Commodore Kemp series ( Convoy East ) demonstrates his usual firm grasp of both shipboard life and a large cast of characters whose...
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Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-312-06991-9
The bad news is that McCutchan's latest Halfhyde book ( The Last Farewell ) offers minimal seamanship; the good news is that even though his humor lacks some of its usual bite, he provides a high old time puncturing late Victorian mores. Merchant...
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Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-312-05458-8
Any similarity between the fictional British liner Laurentia and the real-life Lusitania is probably intentional, as the skilled McCutchan (Halfhyde, Cameron and Convoy series) suspensefully tells of the doomed ship's 1915 New York-England crossing.
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Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-312-08168-3
The vastly prolific McCutchan--author of the Simon Shard series (12 books), the Halfhyde series (16), the Donald Cameron (13), the Commander Shaw (20) and 22 other books--here tells a sixth tale featuring Commodore John Mason Kemp. Once the skipper...
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Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (171p) ISBN 978-0-312-09762-2
McCutchan's 10 years at sea have resulted in nearly 90 naval adventure tales, including the Commander Shaw, Lieutenant Halfhyde and Commodore Kemp series, as well as the Donald Cameron books, of which this is the 14th. In February 1942, Cameron,...
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Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (183p) ISBN 978-0-312-11743-6
Veteran author of numerous military novels, McCutchan launches a nautical series starring apprentice seaman Tom Chatto. ``Fresh from the West of Ireland,'' 16-year-old Tom comes to England and is apprenticed to the commercial barque Pass of...
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Philip McCutchan, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14410-4
Given that Britisher McCutchan has published more than 90 adventure novels, it's no surprise that he springs no surprises in his latest, the second Tom Chatto yarn (after Apprentice to the Sea, 1995). Nonetheless, fans of seafaring historicals will...
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