Napoleon Bonaparte\'s ambitions for world domination are growing apace, and when Captain Sir Thomas Kydd returns to take up command of his ship Tyger , he finds himself called to be part of a great armada on a mission of the utmost urgency.
He returns to find a.
Kydd is captured by the French but in a strange twist finds himself released to snatch the future king of France from exile.
Unbeknownst to Kydd, his old friend, Renzi, has been called upon to undertake a parallel diplomatic mission.
Napoleon Bonaparte\'s ambitions for world domination are growing apace, and when Captain Sir Thomas Kydd returns to take up command of his ship Tyger , he finds himself called to be part of a great armada on a mission of the utmost urgency