Russell's first-rate debut features taut plotting, liberal action and an
attractively modest hero: Royal Navy Lt. Charles Hayden. In 1793, Britain is at
war with revolutionary France, and Hayden, the son of an English father and
a French mother, feels torn in half. Denied a promotion, he reluctantly accepts
appointment as first lieutenant to the frigate Themis: the commander, Capt.
Josiah Hart, has powerful connections in the Admiralty, but is widely disparaged
among the fleet as a tyrannical coward. Hayden is dismayed to find the ship in
a state of dreadful disarray, the crew on the verge of mutiny and Hart hostile
to Hayden's remedial efforts. With the French in sight, tensions aboard come to
a boil.

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