Book shows signs of age and use with yellow edges and crease on cover. Binding is good and all pages intact. Set sail with Book Two in this powerful saga of the American Revolution—a stirringly dramatic maritime adventure in the epic, true-to-life tradition of Patrick O'Brian.... Late summer, 1775. General George Washington discovers that his cache of gunpowder bas dwindled to a mere nine shots per man. Desperate, be adopts the plan designed by a group of Rhode Island patriots-send a ship to Bermuda to capture British powder known to be there—as well as their recommendation for the man to lead the mission: Captain Isaac Biddlecomb. But the plan is a trap, set by a traitor among the patriots, and one from which even Biddlecomb cannot escape. With treachery threatening the revolution, Washington dispatches his aide-de-camp, Major Edward Fitzgerald, to bunt the turncoat down. Meanwhile, Biddlecomb must rely on native cunning and seamanship to free bis men and his ship, and to bring to the army near Boston the gunpowder that is the lifeblood of the nascent fight for liberty. Divided by an ocean but bound by the cause-as well as by their own private fears-Biddlecomb and Fitzgerald take on a common enemy: the greatest military power on earth....