The Diabolical Plan is a short fiction work and the first story set in Derek Gunn's The HMS Swift Adventures which is set against the historical backdrop of the fragile peace that existed between the American Revolution, the looming French Revolution, the threat of Napoleon's growing empire
The year is 1791 and Captain Thomas Butler and his loyal crew of The HMS Swift, a frigate in the service of King George III Of England, are sent on missions where nothing is what it seems, and forces far darker than any of them have experienced before, reign supreme.
In The Diabolical Plan, they uncover a plot to utilise the walking dead against the King's forces...