Here is the “missing Lambdin”, the second in the Alan Lewrie series which has been out-of-print in hardcover and now published for the first time in paperback. Here we join Lewrie at the siege of Yorktown, near the end of the Revolutionary War. Pounded by the American forces on land and the deadly warships of their French allies at sea, the once-proud city is aflame and near ruin. The Royal Navy, with heavily-armed frigates, is poised to break through the French blackade. Aboard HMS 'Desperate', Midshipman Lewrie sets his gunners to their lethal work firing broadsides of 24-pound shot at the enemy vessels.