January 1801, and Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, known as "St. Alan the
Liberator" for freeing (stealing!) a dozen black slaves on Jamaica
to man his frigate years before, is at last being brought to trial
for it, with his life on the line. At the same time, Russia,
Sweden, Denmark, and Prussia are forming a League of Armed
Neutrality, to Napoleon Bonaparte's delight, to deny Great Britain
their vital exports, even if it means war. England will need all
her experienced sea dogs, but ... "even Alan Lewrie?" Ultimately
Lewis is acquitted, but he's also ignored by the Navy, so it's
half-pay on "civvy street" for him, and with idle time on his
mischievous hands, Lewrie is "sure" to get himself in
trouble---again!---especially if there are young women and his
wastrel public school friends involved...and they are! A brawl in a
Panton Saint brothel, a drunk, infatuated young Russian count,
precede Lewrie's summons to Admiralty and the command of the
"Thermopylae" frigate to replace an ill captain as the fleet
gathers to face down the League of the North, and its instigator,
the mad Tsar Paul. Lewrie must take the "Thermopylae "into the
Baltic in the dead of winter, alone and with no support, to scout
the enemy fleets and iced-in harbours, deal with a fellow officer
who is less of a friend than he thought, and be saddled with a pair
of Russian noblemen as a last-minute peace delegation, but if the
wily Foreign Office spy-master, Zachariah Twigg, sent them, what
"else "might their mission be? All that and the Battle of
Copenhagen, too, and it's broadsides at close quarters, and
treachery for Lewrie, forcing him to use all his wiles to survive!
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