Revolution's Edge

Book 7 of the Nicholas Cruwys Naval Series

Toulon to the Caribbean, 1788–1791. A world unravelling. A revolution that will change everything—and everyone.

When Captain Nicholas Cruwys in the frigate Miranda stands on the ramparts of Fort Lamalgue on Christmas Eve 1788, watching the magnificent French fleet spread below him, he can already sense the cracks forming in the old order. The dockyard workers are unpaid, the officers restless, and somewhere across France a catastrophe is building.

Orders take Miranda south and west — to the Caribbean, where Saint-Domingue, the richest colony in the world, is fracturing along every fault line that wealth and slavery have driven through it. As revolution spreads from Paris to the plantations, Nicholas finds himself drawn into a conspiracy that reaches from the harbour of Havana in Spanish Cuba to the colonial treasury of Port-au-Prince — and into a reunion that reopens wounds he had believed healed.

When the crisis breaks, it will demand everything a frigate captain can give: engagements with foreign men-of-war in waters where no war has been declared, decisions that cannot be unwritten, and losses that will follow him home. And at home, a reckoning long deferred is finally waiting.

From the Mediterranean to the burning wharves of Port-au-Prince, Revolution's Edge delivers the authentic naval action, meticulous period detail, and richly drawn characters that have made this series essential reading for fans of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester.