Free from jail Lieutenant John Pearce is not free from the smugglers whose boat he stole
- they want bloody revenge & are prepared to chase him to the ends of the earth to get it. Granted a commission by William Pitt Pearce evades his pursuers by undertaking a dangerous mission. As high rebellious ambition turns to bloody disaster Pearce must extricate himself from peril
- along with old flame Amelie Labordiere
- & rejoin Admiral Howe's fleet. The danger for the Pelicans is only just beginning however as Howe's collision with a French fleet climaxes in one of the greatest battles of the Revolutionary War: the Battle of the Glorious First of June.