James L. Nelson, Author . Morrow $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-80454-2
Former pirate Thomas Marlowe returns to his old trade in this third and final novel in Nelson's Brethren of the Coast series (The Guardship; The Blackbirder). It is the year 1706, and Marlowe has been a (fairly) respectable Virginia tobacco...
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James L. Nelson, Author . Morrow $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-019969-2
Nelson (By Force of Arms), the author of two nautical series, offers an exciting stand-alone naval warfare adventure. This time his hero is an officer in the battered and ill-equipped Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Shortly after the
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James L. Nelson, Author . Morrow $26.95 (463p) ISBN 978-0-06-019970-8
If not quite up to the standard of his best naval historicals, Nelson's second nautical adventure set during the Civil War (after 2003's Glory in the Name
) offers a rousing plot and seafaring detail as authentic as any in the Hornblower or...
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James L. Nelson, Author Pocket Books $24.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-671-01381-3
At the outset, the final installment in Nelson's Revolution at Sea trilogy (after The Maddest Idea) seems to chart a steady course through the standard formulaic historical romance, with dashing swashbucklers, satin-skinned ingenues, crusty old sea...
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James L. Nelson, Author Harper Paperbacks $14.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-80452-8
The initial entry in Nelson's The Brethren of the Coast series (after his Revolution at Sea trilogy) is first-rate popular action writing. In 1701 Virginia, Thomas Marlowe kills a favorite son of the colony's most powerful tobacco family, the...
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James L. Nelson, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-380-80453-5
The lead characters of Nelson's The Guardship are back in this intelligent tale of high seas adventure: landowner and swashbuckling former seaman Thomas Marlowe; his wife, Elizabeth; and his friend, former tutor Francis Bickerstaff. Though Marlowe...
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James L. Nelson, Author William Morrow & Company $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-052403-6
The Monitor-Merrimack showdown may be one of the Civil War's most overhyped chestnuts: the two ships were by no means the first ironclads, and their long awaited confrontation proved an anticlimactic draw, their cannon fire clanging harmlessly off...
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James L. Nelson, St. Martin's/Dunne, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-57644-8
This rousing history rescues Bunker Hill from its folkloric shroud and pre-sents it as one of the revolution's more significant and dramatic battles. Historian and novelist Nelson (Benedict Arnold's Navy) calls the 1775 engagement—a struggle for...
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James L. Nelson, Author, Peter Wolverton, Editor Pocket Books $22.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-671-51924-7
The American Revolution has been well covered in fiction, but almost entirely as a land war-much as the War of 1812 has been treated virtually only as a naval war. By Force of Arms is the first book of a new series that will address the former...
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Elizabeth Garrett, Author, James L. Nelson, Author Forge $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-87518-3
""Writing a novel based on the lives of real people... is a tricky thing,"" muses first novelist Garrett in an afterword. ""The end result is, invariably, an odd amalgam of history and fiction, not entirely one or the other."" Striving for...
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