Death came aboard with the cormorant. It arrived on the seventh day of our voyage… This is the secret report of Laurence Jago: unwilling spy, reluctant sailor, accidental detective.
New Year 1795, and Laurence Jago is aboard the Tankerville mail ship, sailing to Philadelphia. Laurence is travelling undercover, but his real mission is to protect a civil servant en route to Congress with a vital treaty that will stop the Americans from joining the French in their war against Britain.
When the civil servant meets an unfortunate – and apparently accidental – end, the treaty disappears, and Laurence realises only he can keep the Americans out of the war. A Waterstones Thriller of the Month, shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger.
