Dudley Pope

Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage is to sail his tiny cutter close in to the Italian shore and rescue a party of stranded aristocrats....

The lieutenant is summoned by the admiralty and given command of the brig Triton. But like the rest of the navy, Triton's crew has mutinied....

A sinking British ship. Her crew and her passengers—men and women alike—are ruthlessly murdered at the hands of a French privateer....

As England falls under a blanket of peace with the restoration of Charles II, in distant Jamaica all is not well....

In the 1660’s Jamaica was an uneasy island, occupied by Spain but settled by the English and French....

In a daring spy scheme to protect British shores, Ramage is chosen to plumb the secrets of the French, and the penalty for failure is the guillotine....

Captain Lord Ramage and the Calypso return from Devil's Island, but Ramage's new wife, Sarah, is missing....

The youngest captain in His Majesty's Navy, with a reputation for landing impossible assignments, Lord Ramage is dispatched to the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Diamond Rock....

The vicious mutineers aboard the British ship Jocasta had surrendered their vessel to Spain....

Post Captain Ramage is prowling the Tuscan coast and far from English aid when he encounters a daunting French invasion fleet....

With Napoleon Bonaparte at the height of his powers, the Mediterranean can safely be considered exclusive French territory....

Lieutenant Lord Ramage, in command of the Triton brig, is escorting a convoy from Barbados to Jamaica, normally a routine and tedious chore....

The lieutenant is ordered to proceed to Gibraltar "with all possible despatch" aboard His Majesty's ship Kathleen....

Captain Lord Ramage's honeymoon in France is interrupted by a sudden end to the Peace of Amiens....

Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage sets out from Jamaica to discover what treachery is threatening to throw the British navy into chaos....

Ramage hopes to enjoy a well-deserved leave when he receives new orders: Ccmmission and take command of the Dido....

Admiralty spies are hunting for British officers and allies trapped on the mainland, among them Ramage's first love, Gianna, the Marchesa di Volterra....

Nelson's crews are standing down, and Ramage is on leave when he receives secret admiralty orders to inspect the small island of Trinidade off the coast of Brazil....

Barbary Coast pirates - the Saraceni - are capturing slaves and terrorizing fishing villages along the coast of Sicily....

Ramage, finally reunited with his beloved Sarah, hopes to spend at least a few quiet weeks with her....