Martin Hicks has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is A Deepening Twilight.
The Turn of Fate
Summary
It is the autumn of 1864 and the Confederate raider Palmetto is in Far Eastern waters, where an encounter with Malay pirates and an attack by hostile islanders have left her seriously undermanned.
Thomas Grover, Palmetto’s captain, must continue to elude the US warships hunting for his ship, while somehow finding a way of recruiting replacements for his crew. Failure to accomplish this will compel him to undertake a hazardous, return voyage to the American coast, where the overwhelming strength of the US blockading fleet awaits his beleaguered vessel.
About the Author:
Martin Hicks lives in Fraserburgh, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He began writing after a career in education and The Turn of Fate, the concluding novel of the Palmetto series, is his 12th book. He is currently working on a further title.
By the same author:
A Gathering of Soldiers
Hard Passage North
The Rappahannock Line
Mirage of Victory
The Bitterest Enemy
A Season for Killing
A Deepening Twilight
Bond of Blood
Palmetto
An Instrument of War
Nothing Without Honour
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A Season for Killing
Summary
A Season for Killing is told from the perspective of Daniel Ryan, a corporal in Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Virginia in 1864 during the American Civil War, as the brutal campaign in the spring and summer of that year unfolds. Ryan, an Irish immigrant in a Georgian brigade, serves heroically in a succession of battles as the Confederate Army is forced back through Virginia to their capital city of Richmond. Ryan witnesses the steady decline of his Confederate Army, yet he fights on as best he can. What we find in this novel are the perennial issues of conflict, turmoil, futility, and loss, contrasted with the finer human qualities of bravery, love, and hope.
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An Independent Command
Summary
When Lieutenant James Rutherford of the Honourable East India Company is summoned to Government House in Calcutta, he has no inkling of what awaits him there. To his great surprise, he is offered command of the Spartan, a newly converted steam warship, receiving orders to proceed to sea to hunt a Chinese pirate, but, though those orders appear straightforward enough, they initiate a deadly sequence of events during which the hunter all too often is the quarry. The author, Martin Hicks, lives in Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire in Scotland and began writing after a career in education. An Independent Command, set in the Far East in the mid-19th century, is his 13th book. A sequel to it is currently in preparation.
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Nothing Without Honour
Summary
It is the spring of 1864, and the Confederate raider Palmetto is off the Philippines, pursuing her campaign against US shipping. For her captain, Thomas Grover, there is much to consider, for with the previously sustained engine damage not fully repaired, he learns that these seas are now patrolled by a new Union warship that vastly overmatches his own ship.
As the war turns increasingly against the south, Grover must redouble his efforts against the enemy, but the hidden threats facing him are as dangerous as the known ones.
About the author: Martin Hicks lives in Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire and began writing after a career in education. Nothing Without Honour is his eleventh book and continues the Palmetto series. He is currently working on his next book.
By the same author:
A Gathering of Soldiers
Hard Passage North
The Rappahannock Line
Mirage of Victory
The Bitterest Enemy
A Season for Killing
A Deepening Twilight
Bond of Blood
Palmetto
An Instrument of War
©2018 Martin Hicks (P)2018 Martin Hicks
An Instrument of War
Summary
It is August 1863, and the Confederate Navy Cruiser Palmetto escapes from Charleston harbor to resume her career as a raider, hunting the shipping of the US. The succeeding months see her range the Atlantic Ocean before facing a wild passage of Cape Horn, as her Captain Thomas Grover steers his ship for the Orient, seeking evermore victims in his mission to cripple the overseas commerce of the enemy.
Martin Hicks lives in Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and began writing after a career in education. An Instrument of War, the sequel to Palmetto, is his 10th work, all of them set in the war of 1861-65. He is currently working on the third and final audiobook of the Palmetto series.
By the same author:
A Gathering of Soldiers
Hard Passage North
The Rappahannock Line
Mirage of Victory
The Bitterest Enemy
A Season for Killing
A Deepening Twilight
Bond of Blood
Palmetto
©2018 Martin Hicks (P)2018 Martin Hicks
A Deepening Twilight
Summary
A Deepening Twilight, the sequel to A Season for Killing, continues the story of Daniel Ryan, an Irish immigrant serving in Robert E. Lee's confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. The novel relates Ryan's experiences in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, and in the trenches around Richmond, during the closing months of the war. As the army and the south sink towards defeat, he, and the remnant of his Georgia company continue the struggle against the odds, experiencing at first-hand how war can reveal the best, as well as the worst, of those on either side. In the midst of the conflict and suffering, Daniel Ryan finds that his relationship with the war widow Rebecca Channing is not as dead as he thought.
©2019 Martin Hicks (P)2020 Martin Hicks