Rafael Martínez-Pardo

When Captain Alvaro Tillford is chosen for a covert mission, delivering £50,000 of gold to the colony of Georgia, he has no idea the «secret agent» he is supposed to be meeting is his best friend's brother-in-law – or that he has just been hanged for treason against the Crown. Now the British Authorities in Georgia are after Alvaro's family in earnest; the Naval Authorities in Jamaica are after Alvaro's skin for the mission failure; and Alvaro is after the men who set him up. ...