The Sailing Thrillers · Book 2
Sea Lord (Killer's Wake)
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 510
- ISBN-13
- 9780947008598
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sea Lord -- published in the US as Killer's Wake -- centers on a disgraced sailor drawn into a Cornish smuggling conspiracy. At 510 pages, it's the longest of the five Sailing Thrillers, arriving in 1989.
Its place in The Sailing Thrillers
Sea Lord (Killer's Wake) is book 2 in the The Sailing Thrillers series. It follows Wildtrack. It is followed by Crackdown. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780947008598