Publisher's Synopsis
You don't send a gentleman to catch vermin. You send Hawkwood. Hunting down highwaymen was not the usual preserve of a Bow Street Runner. As the most resourceful of this elite band, Matthew Hawkwood was surprised to be assigned the case, even if it did involve the murder and mutilation of a naval courier, but as the case unfolds the true agenda behind the robbery emerges. The stolen naval dispatch pouch held details of a French plot which could send the Royal Navy scurrying to port in terror, leaving Napoleon to rule the waves. With no way of knowing who can be trusted, Hawkwood must engage in a desperate race against time.
