Publisher's Synopsis
Kydd must take on Napoleon's mighty fleet, alone Commander Kydd has dragged himself up in the navy from press-ganged seaman to master of his own ship. Now he faces disgrace. After offending an Admiral, and suffering terrible personal tragedy, Kydd is sent to guard the Channel Islands. When he is brutally betrayed off the Normandy coast and dismissed his ship, only his old friend Renzi is willing to stick by him. Then he is given an extraordinary opportunity to return to sea as captain of a privateer, prowling the Atlantic to capture the wealthy French traders and heavily armed fighting ships returning to Bonaparte.
