Rapscallion (Matthew Hawkwood 3.) 1 csillagozás

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Matthew Hawkwood, soldier turned peace officer, goes undercover in Britain's infamous prison ships…

For a French prisoner of the Napoleonic wars, there is only one fate worse than the gallows: the hulks. Former men-o'-war, converted to prison ships, their fearsome reputation guarantees a sentence served in the most dreadful of penal conditions.

Few survive. Escape, it's said, is impossible.

Yet reports persist of a sinister smuggling operation within this brutal world – and the Royal Navy is worried enough to send two of its officers to investigate.

But when they disappear without trace, the Navy turns in desperation to Bow Street for help. The Runers offer their best man. It's time to send in Hawkwood…