It\'s the 1890s and Royal Navy Lieutenant St Vincent Halfhyde finds himself out of favor with the Navy and on half-pay ashore when he is summoned to the Admiralty.
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As a Russian speaker who is familiar with Benin, Halfhyde is confident he\'s the man for the job--until he runs into Admiral Prince Gorsinski, cousin of the Czar and Halfhyde\'s former jailer.
His mission: to sail to the Bight of Benin in West Africa and spy on the not-so-secret Russian presence there.
It\'s the 1890s and Royal Navy Lieutenant St Vincent Halfhyde finds himself out of favor with the Navy and on half-pay ashore when he is summoned to the Admiralty