Napoleon's plan to invade England may be stopped - if the entire British fleet can engage the French navy. Captain Thomas Kydd is eager to help, but first he must forge a peak fighting unit from the embittered crew of his brig-sloop HMS Teaser. On the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar, Kydd gets caught up in shadowy political machinations that could checkmate Admiral Horatio Nelson. Can Kydd and his shipmates hlep Nalson, Amidst the chaos and bloodshed...

Lord Ramage returns to fight in the most famous of Britain's sea battles. Summoned by Admiral Nelson himself, Ramage is sent to join the British fleet off Cadiz where the largest battle in naval history is about to take place. Finding himself in the front line of battle, Lord Ramage must fight to save his own life as well as for his country. The result is a thrilling, hair-raising adventure from one of our best-loved naval writers.

His voyage home should be a period of rest, but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by the Revenant, a French sea-raider that is terrorizing British shipping in the Indian Ocean. Betrayed and defeated, Sharpe is imprisoned on the Ile de France, doomed to rot there until the war ends.