1802: Perfidy... With the Treaty of Amiens signed, and the Calypso about to be paid off, Ramage and his new bride can at last honeymoon in France as guests of the Count of Rennes.
But then Napoleon - his armies restocked - has all foreigners and French royalists arrested and sent to Devil's Island, the French prison colony. Ramage escapes capture, but the danger is enormous as Ramage collects useful information for the Admiralty and plans a daring rescue...