Liberty's Edge
(2025)(The fifth book in the Nicholas Cruwys Naval series)
A novel by Adrian Westbrooke
Liberty’s Edge Book V of the Nicholas Cruwys Series
1785. The world has changed, but not the men who must steer it. In the wake of the honours and hazards of Crescent’s Edge—his presentation before the King, his hard-won command of Miranda, and the favour of Lord Howe—Captain Nicholas Cruwys finds that peace demands a subtler courage than war.
The Admiralty sends Miranda westward into the uncertain calm that follows revolution. There, amid the new commerce between Britain, America, and the islands between, Cruwys encounters the unfinished business of victory: privateers turned merchants, enslaved men fighting for liberty’s meaning, and rivals who wage their battles in corridors rather than seas.
At home, London’s drawing rooms prove no less perilous than any quarterdeck. Old alliances shift, new ambitions stir, and his bond with Caroline Carlisle deepens into a choice that will bind his public honour to his private heart.
From St. James’s Palace to the turbulent Caribbean, Liberty’s Edge continues Nicholas Cruwys’s odyssey through the uncertain peace of a world remade.
Meticulously researched and charged with moral tension, this is historical fiction in the finest tradition—where seamanship, conscience, and the quiet test of character matter more than gunfire itself.
For readers of Patrick O’Brian and C.S. Forester, a story of command, consequence, and the perilous calm that follows triumph.
Genre: Thriller
1785. The world has changed, but not the men who must steer it. In the wake of the honours and hazards of Crescent’s Edge—his presentation before the King, his hard-won command of Miranda, and the favour of Lord Howe—Captain Nicholas Cruwys finds that peace demands a subtler courage than war.
The Admiralty sends Miranda westward into the uncertain calm that follows revolution. There, amid the new commerce between Britain, America, and the islands between, Cruwys encounters the unfinished business of victory: privateers turned merchants, enslaved men fighting for liberty’s meaning, and rivals who wage their battles in corridors rather than seas.
At home, London’s drawing rooms prove no less perilous than any quarterdeck. Old alliances shift, new ambitions stir, and his bond with Caroline Carlisle deepens into a choice that will bind his public honour to his private heart.
From St. James’s Palace to the turbulent Caribbean, Liberty’s Edge continues Nicholas Cruwys’s odyssey through the uncertain peace of a world remade.
Meticulously researched and charged with moral tension, this is historical fiction in the finest tradition—where seamanship, conscience, and the quiet test of character matter more than gunfire itself.
For readers of Patrick O’Brian and C.S. Forester, a story of command, consequence, and the perilous calm that follows triumph.
Genre: Thriller
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