It is 1943, and Captain Mike Btackwood, Royat Marine Commando, is a survivor. Young, toughened and tried in the hetUsh crucible of Burma, he tabours, sometimes fattering, beneath the weight of tradition, the gtorious heritage of his family, and the burden of his own serf-doubt.

For Btackwood, the horizon is not the tip of the trench seen by men of the Corps in the previous war, but the ramp of a tanding craft smashing down into the sea, and the fire of the enemy on a Sicitian beach. Here, tradition is not enough, and Mike Btackwood must find within himsetf quatities of readership which witt inspire those Royat Marines who are once again the first to rand, and among the first to die.

Dust on the Sea is the fourth in Douglas Reeman’s bestselling Blackwood series, following Badge of Glory, The First to Land and The Horizon. It is his thirty-third novel written under his own name. He has also written twenty-four bestselling historical novels under the pseudonym Alexander Kent, featuring Richard Bolitho and his nephew Adam Bolitho.

Prologue

Commando

It Was Nice Meeting You

Operation ’Lucifer’

No Turning Back

’Don’t Ask. Just Do It!’

Faces of War

Shadows

Need

Under Cover of Darkness

’Just Get Me to The Bloody Sea!’

On Active Service

The Finest Day

A Bit of Help

Smile Before Dying

Up the Line

A Matter of Timing

Know Your Enemy

Without Question

Epilogue