History, romance, and adventure are again skillfully blended by Kenneth Roberts, America's greatest historical novelist.

488 Pages.

It is 1800, and the ideals and promises of the newborn United states are being tested in actual practice. In Boston, the Federalists are jailing those who speak out against them. In the West indies, French privateers are avenging a broken treaty by capturing American merchant vessels which French courts are condemning and allowing to be sold. In France, Bonaparte is planning the reconquest of Haiti as the base for an attack on continental America. In the Mediterranean, the Barbary States, Tripoli in particular, are blackmailing the United States and seizing's American ships.