Thought it worth noting that the first in the Aubrey/Maturin series has been reduced from $9.99 to 1.99 - can only hope more reductions in the series will follow...
Master and Commander (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) - Patrick O'Brien
http://www.amazon.com/Master-Command...dp/B006C3Q6GG/
This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
Also, another oldie but goodie is today's Kindle Daily Deal, for $1.99:
The Eagle Has Landed - Jack Higgins
http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Landed-L...dp/B004RDKPMO/
In November of 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: to abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. The mission, ordered by Hitler himself and planned by Heinrich Himmler, is led by ace agent Kurt Steiner and aided on the ground by IRA gunman Liam Devlin.