1798: Shipwreck... Ramage has to be especially vigilant while guarding a convoy en route from Barbados to Jamaica: the dreaded Admiral Goddard means to continue his vendetta against the young Lieutenant.
And the Admiral nearly has his prey when a privateer threatens the convoy's precious cargo, a family of important French refugees. But Ramage and the crew of the Triton avert disaster - only to be plunged into the eye of a ferocious storm whose wrath delivers them onto enemy shores and leaves them and their cargo fighting for their lives...