Treason's Edge

In January of 1796, the richest convoy to leave Bombay in a twelvemonth sails early, by a track nobody watches, with a single frigate to guard it. Her course has already been sold.

Captain Nicholas Cruwys knows it. He is the bait. Eighteen months in the East have made him the most celebrated captain east of the Cape, and taught him that the French cruisers which take the Company’s ships are never where chance alone would put them; in a Bombay lane a young midshipman died beside him for what he had learned. Now, with the Company’s silver for the lure and Topaze alone in plain sight, Nicholas and the men who sent him mean to make the enemy show his hand.