Crackdown

Its place in The Sailing Thrillers

Crackdown is book 3 in the The Sailing Thrillers series. It follows Sea Lord (Killer's Wake). It is followed by Stormchild. See the full The Sailing Thrillers reading order.

Before Bernard Cornwell became synonymous with Napoleonic-era and Dark Age historical fiction, he wrote five contemporary thrillers built around his own lifelong passion for sailing. Each novel is a self-contained story with a different protagonist, but together they share a template: ordinary people — sailors, ex-soldiers, journalists — pulled into smuggling rings, fraud, political conspiracy, or violent revenge plots that play out largely on and around small boats, English coastal waters, and the sailing world…