Across the English Channel, Napoleon has massed a great invasion flotilla.
About the Author: Dudley Pope, a naval defense correspondent of the London Evening News, progressed to writing carefully research.
In a daring spy scheme to protect British shores, Ramage is chosen to plumb the secrets of the French, and the penalty for failure is the guillotine.
English forces, under Lord Nelson, are all but paralyzed--not knowing the size, strength, or time of the foreign onslaught.
Across the English Channel, Napoleon has massed a great invasion flotilla