Storm Tide

by Wilbur Smith Book 7 in the Birds of Prey Sequence series.

First published 2022

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Britain and North America from 1774. Rob Courtney leaves an East African trading post and enters the Royal Navy as Britain’s conflict with its American colonies becomes open war. Across the Atlantic, his Courtney relatives support independence. The revolution creates an unusual Courtney conflict in which kinship cannot bridge arguments over taxation, representation and loyalty to the Crown.

The family is divided between imperial service and revolution, and personal revenge follows deaths on the battlefield. Naval action and land campaigns place three generations inside the political and military struggle that creates the United States. Rob’s naval service and the American branch’s commitment to independence show how civil war and international war overlap as Britain struggles to retain the colonies.