After members of Harry Ludlow's crew are illegally pressed into the Royal Navy, Harry sets out to rescue them, but when he finally finds them in the West Indies, he becomes entangled in a web of piracy and murder.

Returning to England, Harry and James Ludlow become embroiled in a struggle between rival smugglers in the English Channel and find that they cannot escape even after fleeing to Deal, a picturesque town with a deadly dark side.

Harry Ludlow, forced out of the Royal Navy, becomes a privateer in partnership with his younger brother James. But for the Ludlows, murder and intrigue take more of their time than hunting fat trading vessels. Harry and James find themselves aboard the Navy's 74-gun Magnanime. In command is a captain with whom Harry has crossed swords in the past. When James is found standing over the body of a dead officer, Harry's feud shifts into the background.

Product Description: Arriving in the squalid, seething port of Genoa, Harry Ludlow and his partner and younger brother, James, find it a tinderbox of tension, fed by the discovery of a hanged British sea captain and packs of English and French sailors at each other's throats.

Product Description: Arriving in the squalid, seething port of Genoa, Harry Ludlow and his partner and younger brother, James, find it a tinderbox of tension, fed by the discovery of a hanged British sea captain and packs of English and French sailors at each other's throats.

An action-packed anthology of twenty-one tales of adventure and naval engagement on the high seas includes the exploits of C. S. Forrester's Horation Hornblower and Richard Woodman's Nathaniel Drinkwater, as well as other stories by Derek Wilson, Peter Tremayne, Arthur Conan Doyle, and other celebrated authors. Original. (view table of contents)