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Thomas M. Wing’s Perilous Shores, book two of The Sea Hawkes Chronicles, is set in 1777 during the American Revolution, where Virginia privateer captain Jonas Hawke is preparing his brigantine Resolute for a voyage that will carry the fighting across the Atlantic. Jonas travels with his son William after the death of his wife Mary during the British occupation of Newport, and grief has hardened his determination to strike the Crown wherever its shipping can be reached. His first opportunity comes when intelligence points to a convoy carrying masts from Halifax for Royal Navy warships. Jonas joins Captain Noonan aboard the privateer Defiance in pursuing the ships before continuing toward enemy waters. As the Resolute moves farther from American ports, Jonas must keep his crew behind on a mission that depends on secrecy while British patrols close around the routes he intends to attack.
Thomas M. Wing’s Perilous Shores is superb maritime historical fiction, with period detail so convincing that eighteenth-century life at sea feels close enough to touch. You can tell Wing knows this world inside out; one shipboard meal has sailors crouching beside hanging mess planks while boiled dried peas come from copper pots, giving the scene a genuine physical reality that comes right through. Captain Mortenson of the frigate Brighton is the character who really got me. Wing gives this antagonist a hunger for glory that turns his pursuit into pure entertainment, with Mortenson’s ambition coloring every appearance. That same eye for place gives the wider eighteenth-century world real character. L’Orient after dark hums with music as dust rises from warm cobblestones. Along the Irish coast at sunset, sparsely populated countryside stretches toward the horizon in a green sweep. Readers interested in nautical historical fiction should absolutely pick up Perilous Shores. Very highly recommended.
