This is the first of a series of stories based on the fictional life of Michael Orrick North, one of King George III's most successful sailors. It is 1799 and Britain is at war with France. A few days after Napoleon takes over the government in Paris by force, Michael North can be found as the First Lieutenant of the frigate Phoenix in the Bay of Biscay. After a battle and the capture of a French frigate, North returns to London and becomes entangled in a conspiracy involving rival fur trading companies in Canada to assist an invasion by the French. Promoted to post captain and given command...
This is the first of a series of stories based on the fictional life of Michael Orrick North, one of King George III's most successful sailors. It is ...
It is the spring of 1803. The shaky peace between Britain and France is breaking down and Bonaparte is about to rampage across Europe once more. Michael North, the commodore of a flotilla of ships, is sent to the Baltic on a secret mission vital to British interests. Spies and traitors are not the only villains as he fights the corruption of Navy suppliers and the murderous malice of senior officers. The battles are at sea and in the drawing rooms of the British elite. As treachery and envy threaten North and his band of mariners. The bloody business of war on the high seas is carried on...
It is the spring of 1803. The shaky peace between Britain and France is breaking down and Bonaparte is about to rampage across Europe once more. Micha...