A Commander Steadfast Naval Thriller by Richard Freeman (#1-3)
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Overview: Richard Freeman graduated in mathematics before following a career in distance education. He now writes on naval history.
Genre: Historical Fiction
First Command (#1)
Winter, 1941.
The ambitious and headstrong Lieutenant Commander George Steadfast RNR is looking forward to captaining his first ship, the HMS Defiant.
After years having to answer to commanders and captains, it’s finally Steadfast’s turn to take charge.
After losing his grandmother and brother to the war, Steadfast has a personal vendetta against the Germans, and is determined to prove himself as a ruthless, relentless and remorseless leader.
However, many of his makeshift crew do not share Steadfast’s hunger for battle and glory.
They see the Navy as the first and last defender of Britain’s liberty, rather than as an aggressive force that can take the fight to the enemy.
As part of an East Coast convoy, the Defiant is on the roughest posting in the Navy.
This will be the worst berth the crew have ever faced.
The Defiant and its exhausted crew will have to cope with the harsh conditions of winter at sea, whilst defending itself from enemy attack from E-Boats and the Luftwaffe.
Losing men and picking up injuries on the journey, the crew will need to work together to survive.
But as the crew diminishes and the ship becomes increasingly worse for wear, Steadfast starts to doubt whether the Defiant will make it back in one piece, and whether he will return to a dressing down or a hero’s medal.
Will Steadfast be able to unite the crew under his command?
Will his harsh tactics work against the Germans?
Or will the Defiant fall prey to Hitler’s forces and be swallowed up by the sea?
Action This Day (#2)
November 1941.
After the dramatic sinking of his first command – HMS Defiant – Lieutenant Commander George Steadfast needs a break.
But less than a week later he is called to the Admiralty.
He is being sent straight off on another mission.
And the orders for this one come straight from Sir Winston Churchill.
Steadfast is being sent to the Mediterranean to rescue an Albanian scientist called Janos Dobransky.
Dobransky has invented a compound that is vital to the war effort.
Unaware of his importance, the Italians have captured him and are keeping him and other prisoners in a fortress off the Albanian coast.
It is of vital importance that he is rescued before the Germans realise who he is.
The mission is top secret, and Steadfast’s orders are clear: Get Dobransky back. No high jinks. No bravado. Just straight in and straight out.
With the fortress manned from all sides, how will Steadfast manage to infiltrate the island?
Can he complete his mission without the Nazi’s catching wind of what Churchill is up to?
Or will his latest – and most daring – mission be his last…?
Enemy In Sight (#3)
Spring 1942.
On a routine extraction, a British submarine finds that all of its erstwhile passengers are dead… except one.
It turns out that intelligence is being leaked, and men are being sent to their deaths.
Lieutenant Commander George Steadfast – maverick leader and a favourite of Sir Winston Churchill – is in North Africa, assigned to a station that does not want him, to a command he does not desire.
In an attempt to drive him out, Steadfast is assigned what is supposed to be a mundane task: he is to ferry a squad of sappers to the island of Platos.
But when an E-boat crosses his path, toying with him, guiding him towards Platos, he realises something bigger is going on.
The island is not what it seems, and the Germans are lying in wait.
Stuck with a drunken Army officer, subordinates who frown upon his reputation and facing a knowledgeable and dogged foe, Steadfast faces his toughest battle yet.
Will he pull everyone together in time and see the mission through?
Or will he fail at the final hurdle when the Enemy is in Sight?
The odds are not in his favour…
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