They are of consistent quality but also consistent nature

I recently finished The Destroyers by Douglas Reeman. Writing between 1958 and 2011, he produced sixty-eight novels, primarily featuring the Navy and set in World War II or the Napoleonic Wars.

From Wikipedia:

At the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy's boys' training establishment HMS Ganges. In 1940 Reeman was appointed Midshipman, at the age of 16. His initial service was in destroyers on convoy duty in the North Atlantic. During this time his ship was sunk and Reeman was injured by exploding depth charges. Later he transferred to Motor Torpedo Boats and subsequently was present at D-Day in a landing craft. It was then that he was badly injured when his landing craft was hit by shellfire. He finished the war in Kiel repairing damage to bring the port back into use, in the rank of Lieutenant.

After the war, Reeman joined the Metropolitan Police, serving as a beat officer and later in CID. At the outbreak of the Korean War he rejoined the Navy. At the end of the Korean conflict he joined London County Council as a child welfare officer, but remained a Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve.

He is a master of the type of stories he writes but they are pretty much the same story with a slightly different cast of characters in a slightly different setting with slightly different circumstances.

What almost all of them are about is the implacable contest between man and capricious sea, exacerbated by man's battle with man. And always an exploration of man's endurance in the extreme and finally man as part of a community of people with all the strengths and weaknesses.

Usually a tableau of action and events and insights into the human condition, even if fundamentally familiar. And The Destroyers does not disappoint. A good story.

Just don't read too many Reeman stories in a row. They are of consistent quality but also consistent nature.