The Honourable East India company is facing bankruptcy trade with China is taking vast amounts of bullion out of the country and the only product they will purchase for silver is opium. Jason makes a deal with government and company a Viscountcy and a licence for a new Indiaman and all he has to do is put his life and mental wellbeing on the line as his wife and mistress play fast and loose in London

A wounded junior officer serving on a frigate arrives in London for rest and recuperation and the vices of the city, appointed as third lieutenant on a frigate heading to Jamaica he brings the ship in as the surviving officer with a large prize. He is given command of a schooner in the assault of Omoha and reaps the reward of Spanish plate from an already wealthy background he becomes even richer in a time when capitalism runs wild.