Search - Commodore Kilburnie: A Novel

This is the second novel in the series, Captain Kilburnie being the prequel and unless I miss my guess Admiral Kilburnie will bookend the series.

Like the Bolitho’s in Kent’s novels, Aubrey in O’Brian’s, Ramage in Pope’s and Alan Lewrie in Dewey Lambdin’s Nelson era naval series, Fergus Kilburnie rises from middy to commodore. I’d recommend these novels for readers that haven’t delved into the area of Napoleonic era sea warfare. Understand material that the mentioned authors cover in from 13 to 27 novels per series, Woodman’s Drinkwater novels number 15 and the shortest on this subject that I have read are the Kidd novels (8), Stockwin, Mack has in two. Mack compresses a large amount of sea time in, so far, two novels and in those many chapters are home life opposed to life at sea. Saying this you can see Mack’s works necessary must be fast paced and a little shallow in content. For the O’Brian and Kent reader you will find both the plots and terminology, to some extent, that of more modern sea services.