The final instalment of the epic Napoleonic adventure, following a roguish young poacher boy with a hunter's instinct, drawn into a deadly world of spies and spy catchers. With many major political and military posts in the hands of French sympathisers and the old order hunted as wanted men, the British fleet has never been in greater peril. As Nelson prepares to meet the French and Spanish at sea, Jack returns to Norfolk, determined to clear his name and settle to a simple life. Hunted by an army of bounty hunters, as well as the notoriously brutal Colonel, known only as 'The Snake,' simply staying alive may well be an ambition beyond his reach.