1783: His Majesty's secret agent
Fresh from war in the Americas young navy veteran Alan Lewrie finds London pure pleasure. Then at Plymouth he boards the trading ship Telesto to find out why merchantmen are disappearing in the East Indies. Between the pungent shores of Calcutta and teaming Canton Lewrie-reunited with his scoundrel father-discovers a young French captain backed by an armada of Mindanaon pirates on a plundering rampage. While treaties tie the navy's hands a King's privateer is free to plunge into the fire and blood of a dirty little war on the high South China Sea.
Ladies' man officer and rogue Alan Lewrie is the ultimate man of adventure. In the worthy tradition of Hornblower Aubrey and Maturin his exploits echo with the sounds of crowded ports and the crash of naval warfare.
