Authors Cos - Coz
Costain, Thomas B. (1885-1965)
For My Great Folly. Putnam's, 1942. 504 pages
English pirate John Ward fights Spaniards, London underworld, and gentlemen swordsmen in the early 1600s.
High Towers. Doubleday, 1949. 403 pages
Multi-generational family saga, mostly set in French Canada, including scenes set along the Mississippi and New Orleans.
Costello, F. H. [Frederick Hankerson] (1851-1921)
Master Ardick Buccaneer : a South American romance. D. Appleton, 1896. 311 pages
Under the Rattlesnake Flag. Estes & Lauriat, 1898. 302 pages
On Fighting Decks in 1812. Dana Estes, 1899. 385 pages
A Tar of the Old School. Dana Estes, 1900. 367 pages
Nelson's Yankee Boy : the adventures of a plucky young New Englander at Trafalgar and elsewhere, and later in the war of 1812. Henry Holt, 1904. 293 pages
Cottrell, Dorothy (1902-1957)
The Silent Reefs. Morrow, 1953. 241 pages
Two brothers investigate a motorship lost in the West Indies with all hands in a sea as calm as glass
Couch, Dick (1943- )
Pressure Point. Putnam, 1992. 287 pages
Contemporary USN SEAL adventure.
Silent Descent. Putnam, 1993. 298 pages
A US diesel sub loaded with SEAL Team Two sneaks stealthily into the Soviet Arctic to see if they can successfully rescue a CIA mole from the frozen Kola Penninsula where she's investigating an entrepreneurial Russian colonel who's selling off the nuclear weaponry he's supposed to be dismantling to any tin-pot dictator or rogue state with the cash. The colonel isn't in the racket for personal gain, he's just trying to keep his men paid and prevent the collapse of his command.
Rising wind. Naval Institute Press, 1996. 326 pages
Chilling thriller that raises disturbing questions about leftover World War II animosities, as a Japanese terrorist group captures a key US chemical weapons facility in the Pacific and takes 1,000 American hostages.
Couch, G. Northwood
Skipper Morgan : a tale. Gramol, 1947. 160 pages
Adventure story set in South Wales
Coulter, Stephen (1914-1986)
Threshold. Morrow, 1964. 215 pages
An explosion brings the HMS Uranus to rest on the ocean floor seven miles inside Russian territorial waters. There is seven days of oxygen left for the twenty nine survivors. At 10 Downing St., the survivors count for little in what is debated as an embarrassing accident that may hurt international relations because the sub was in fact on a secret reconnaissance mission. The sub's commander is faced with a mutinous crew led by the Communist saboteur who planned the wreck.
Offshore! Heinemann, 1965. 251 pages
A beautiful castaway, tormenting gales, a maddened crew boss, and a demonic saboteur claw at the North Sea offshore oil rig known as Mister Mac
Cowper, E. E. [Edith Elise Cadogan] (1859-1933)
The Brown Bird and her Owners : a story of Adventure off the South Coast. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1900. 256 pages
Calder Creek : a story of Smuggling on the South Coast. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1903. 246 pages
Lady Fabia, a story of adventure on the South Coast in 1805. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1909. 221 pages
Three Girls on a Yacht. Cassell, 1910. 343 pages
The Moonrakers, a story of Smugglers in the New Forest in 1747. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1910. 256 pages
The Crew of the "Silver Fish". Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1914. 223 pages
Three Sailor Girls. Henry Frode, 1916. 288 pages
Maids of the “Mermaid.” A story of Adventure on the Coast of England. Blackie, 1919. 288 pages
Ann's Great Adventure. Blackie, 1923. 320 pages
Girls on the Gold Trail. A story of Strange Adventures in the Northlands. Nelson, 1924. 327 pages
White Wings to the Rescue. Blackie, 1924. 320 pages
The Holiday School. Cassell, 1928. 215 pages
Camilla's Castle. Blackie, 1928. 255 pages
The Forbidden Island. Blackie, 1929. 208 pages
That Joyous Adventure. Nelson, 1929. 95 pages
The Fifth Form Adventurers. Cassell, 1929. 215 pages
The Invincible Fifth. Cassell, 1930. 215 pages
Cox, Patrick G.
A Baltic Affair. Indiego Publishing , 2013. 370 pages
Captain Petroc Gray, commander of the ship-rigged sloop of war, HMS Kestrel, is drawn into diplomacy, intrigue, and espionage when he rescues the Freiherr von Dieffenbach and his family off the island of Rügen in the Baltic. The Freiherr is an important and valuable connection in the struggle to beat the Napoleonic Continental blockade of British trade, and his daughter, Silke, is a delightful young woman with a quick wit, brilliant intelligence, and a keen eye for observing the events unfolding around them.
Cozzens, James Gould (1903-1978)
S.S. San Pedro. Harcourt, Brace, 1931. 136 pages
An ocean liner bound for Argentina with a million dollars in gold and a full passenger list founders in a storm.