Publisher's Synopsis
It is August 1813 and Lieutenant Henry Honeyburn is the newly appointed captain of HMS Cracker. His task is to take dispatches to Orio in Spain for Wellington's peninsular army, but two things stand in the way - an illegitimate son of the Prince Regent and Henry's determination to prove himself.;Showell Styles is also author of "Mutiny in the Caribbean", "The Malta Frigate", "A Kiss for Captain Hardy" and "Centurion Comes Home".