Captain Rennie series book 2
Narrator Michael Tudor Barnes

1788. HMS Expedient has returned from a perilous secret mission to
the Pacific Ocean. Her Captain, William Rennie, and First Lieutenant
James Hayter should be wealthy men, but their patron, the sinister
spymaster Sir Robert Greer, has seen that their rewards and their
crews are meager at best. The most they can hope for is a new
commission - no easy matter in the peace: and the only man with
influence enough to get them one is Greer. Everyone knows that the
uneasy calm that exists between Britain and pre Revolutionary France
cannot last the coming political ferment on the Continent. French
spies are already abroad in the British Colonies planning attacks
that will take place when war breaks out. One of the places most at
risk is the island of Jamaica: a key strategic and economic target
of the French. Soon Expedient is on her way to Port Royal. There
they find a society founded on the unimaginable riches of slavery
and the plantations; a society threatened by sexual intrigue, scandal
and the ever-present threat of fever. But soon murder is added to
the mix and it falls to Rennie and Hayter to unravel a complex enemy
plot taking place at the Governor's residence at Spanish Town; a plot
that will end in a bloody and unexpected sea action.

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