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 against the old enemies, France and Spain. The North saga continues through the Napoleonic war.