1798: A vital link is cut... The West Indian bases are desperate: no packets have arrived with orders in months. Were the privateers out in full force again? Had Napoleon's navy a secret new weapon?
Lieutenant Ramage, stranded on Jamaica after his loss of the Triton, undertakes the hazardous and possibly suicidal mission to discover what treachery is threatening to throw the British navy into chaos. But what he finds is totally unexpected...