As a junior officer in Admiral Lord Howe's expeditionary fleet sailing against the rebellious American colonies, Patrick Dalton distinguished himself both as a seafarer and a leader—until he returns to fleet headquarters to find himself a marked man. Accused of treason against the King in wartime, he was banished to die aboard a rotting prison hulk. Dalton's only chance for escape was the captured American schooner Faith, in command of a ragtag crew of British convicts and Colonial adventurers. With drumming sails spread full, Dalton steers a course for the Delaware coast to match wits and guns against the British frigate Courtesan commanded by the captain who has sworn to see Patrick Dalton die. It is the Faith's seven cannon against the 44-gun man-of-war on a swelling sea of iron-grey water that will soon foam red with blood...

When his mission to deliver a mysterious cargo to Charleston is threatened by pirates and the British White Fleet, ex-British naval officer Patrick Dalton, on the run after being wrongfully accused of treason, must seize the Fury from the pirates, and break through the barricade that guards the Carolina coast. Reprint.

As the war in England's American colonies entered its third bloody year, the last hope for a negotiated settlement vanished. For the king's fleet admirals, it was a time to initiate assaults that would quash the small American navy once and for all. For the beleaguered colonies, it was a time to launch warships and carry the battle to the shores of England. For ex-British naval officer Patrick Dalton, now a fugitive from false charges of treason, it was a time for choosing sides. Bound by honor to the Union Jack, yet committed by the circumstances to the rebel cause, Dalton could no longer run or hide. The fox must turn and fight—but for which flag? The answer lay in the iron-gray sea beyond the British blockade of America's shores—beyond the three-masted, 74-gun ship-of-the-line Royal Lineage that stood in his way. With only the 18-gun Fury at his command, Dalton sets a course on a traveling wind that would follow the call of the bloodstains on the small cruiser's deck in a desperate gamble to preserve his honor and his life and the lives of the stalwart crew who trusted him.

As captain of the Fortune, ex-British naval officer Patrick Dalton escorts merchant ships through treacherous colonial war zones, where English ships search for rebels and ruthlessly confiscate cargo. Accused of treason by the Crown, Dalton is relentlessly pursued by warrant officer Felix Croney. Now, he and his sworn enemy are about to meet in a deadly duel of nerves and wit . . .