The Darkening Sea (Book 22). Alexander Kent. ISBN:9780099591665

An exciting twenty-first sea adventure featuring Richard Bolitho. After the dramatic capture of Martinique, Vice Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns safely to England. He finds a short break from war and politics in the arms of his beloved woman, Catherine Somervell. But the shadow of a new conflict is already darkening over the horizon. An old enemy, France, forms a shaky alliance with America, which in turn threatens the security of British trade routes. And although Bolitho receives an order to immediately go to the Indian Ocean, for the first time he thinks not about glory, but about his own past and the past of the navy. Both Nelson and Collingwood died in the service of their country. Does the new navy admiral have a chance at a life beyond the sea itself?