The Nicholas Cruwys Naval Series: Books 1-3
(2026)(A book in the Nicholas Cruwys Naval series)
An omnibus of novels by Adrian Westbrooke
THE NICHOLAS CRUWYS NAVAL SERIES: BOOKS 1–3
Soundings Edge · Latitudes Edge · Longitudes Edge
Three complete novels following Nicholas Cruwys from a fourteen-year-old gentleman volunteer in 1774 to a seasoned commander in the far waters of the China trade — for readers of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester.
SOUNDINGS EDGE
In the spring of 1774, Nicholas Cruwys leaves the stone halls of Exeter and the ancestral pride of a faded Devonshire line to join His Majesty's Navy — a world where the rigid structures of Georgian society meet the harsh meritocracy of wooden ships and iron discipline. Posted to Resolution under Captain James Cook, he sails to the far reaches of the Pacific on a voyage of scientific inquiry and imperial ambition. Among the islands of the South Seas he encounters societies that challenge everything he has been taught about rank, propriety, and human connection — and begins to question the certainties of his upbringing. The making of an officer, and of a mind.
LATITUDES EDGE
In the wake of the Battle of the Saintes, Cruwys is promoted to commander and given his first independent command: Alert, a captured American schooner refitted for speed, stealth, and irregular duty. He earns distinction along the fractured edges of empire — but the war is ending, and the most perilous waters lie ahead. Returning to a London in flux, with his command about to be sold from under him, Cruwys discovers that the politics of peacetime can be more treacherous than any lee shore: coded letters, veiled threats, and the careful watching of men whose loyalties run in more than one direction.
LONGITUDES EDGE
January 1783. Peace negotiations have opened in Paris, with the terms still hanging in the balance. Temporarily outside naval service, Cruwys commands the East India Company ship Ganges on a mission in the shadows between commerce and warfare: intercept the heavily armed French vessel Espérance, bound for the Far East to strike at the China trade that sustains Britain's eastern empire. What begins as a chase becomes something far more complex — allies whose methods test his understanding of honourable warfare, and an enemy whose ambitions reach well beyond commercial rivalry.
Grounded in meticulous historical research and a sailor's feel for wind, weather, and the sea, these three novels are the foundation of a series that now runs to eight books — and the beginning of one of naval fiction's most distinctive voices.
Genre: Historical
Soundings Edge · Latitudes Edge · Longitudes Edge
Three complete novels following Nicholas Cruwys from a fourteen-year-old gentleman volunteer in 1774 to a seasoned commander in the far waters of the China trade — for readers of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester.
SOUNDINGS EDGE
In the spring of 1774, Nicholas Cruwys leaves the stone halls of Exeter and the ancestral pride of a faded Devonshire line to join His Majesty's Navy — a world where the rigid structures of Georgian society meet the harsh meritocracy of wooden ships and iron discipline. Posted to Resolution under Captain James Cook, he sails to the far reaches of the Pacific on a voyage of scientific inquiry and imperial ambition. Among the islands of the South Seas he encounters societies that challenge everything he has been taught about rank, propriety, and human connection — and begins to question the certainties of his upbringing. The making of an officer, and of a mind.
LATITUDES EDGE
In the wake of the Battle of the Saintes, Cruwys is promoted to commander and given his first independent command: Alert, a captured American schooner refitted for speed, stealth, and irregular duty. He earns distinction along the fractured edges of empire — but the war is ending, and the most perilous waters lie ahead. Returning to a London in flux, with his command about to be sold from under him, Cruwys discovers that the politics of peacetime can be more treacherous than any lee shore: coded letters, veiled threats, and the careful watching of men whose loyalties run in more than one direction.
LONGITUDES EDGE
January 1783. Peace negotiations have opened in Paris, with the terms still hanging in the balance. Temporarily outside naval service, Cruwys commands the East India Company ship Ganges on a mission in the shadows between commerce and warfare: intercept the heavily armed French vessel Espérance, bound for the Far East to strike at the China trade that sustains Britain's eastern empire. What begins as a chase becomes something far more complex — allies whose methods test his understanding of honourable warfare, and an enemy whose ambitions reach well beyond commercial rivalry.
Grounded in meticulous historical research and a sailor's feel for wind, weather, and the sea, these three novels are the foundation of a series that now runs to eight books — and the beginning of one of naval fiction's most distinctive voices.
Genre: Historical
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