Author: Philip McCutchan
Publication Date: 2004
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 224
The first volume in this acclaimed series. It is the end of the 19th Century and the admiralty is worried by the establishment of a not-so-secret Russian naval presense in the Bight of Benin off the west coast of Africa. Lt. St. Vincent Halfhyde, the 007 of his time, is sent to investigate.