'Tyger' by Julian Stockwin
Release date:8th October 2015
Published by: Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN No:978 1444785432
The
greatest naval trial in the Georgian period is underway at Portsmouth
with the court martial of Sir Home Popham, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd's
commanding officer in the doomed occupation of Buenos Aires. Kydd has
some sympathy for Popham's unauthorised action but his support for his
former commander leaves him athwart some very influential people in the
Admiralty.
With his frigate L'Aurore unfit for sea, Kydd is given a commission that some hope will destroy his career. Tyger has
recently mutinied but instead of having her company dispersed around
the fleet as is customary, the ship is pressed into immediate service in
the North Sea. Kydd faces a crew still under some malign influence.
Enemies
aboard and on the high seas are just the start of the problem. Soon he
will have to take his untested and untrustworthy crew into the Baltic
and there they will get entangled with Napoleon's invasion of Prussia.
The stakes are desperate, the task seemingly impossible and the French
implacable. But the only way for Kydd to avoid disgrace is to gamble his
reputation and crew on a crazy mission to snatch a Prussian division
out of the jaws of Napoleon's advancing army. Will he return home once
more a hero, or himself face a court martial?
