Book 14 in the series. Captain Lord Ramage and the “Calypso” return from Devil’s Island, but dark tidings await in dire news from home. Instead of being free to sail there with all haste, Ramage is ordered to shepherd a lumbering convoy of merchant ships back to England. On the way, a bizarre sequence of events leads Ramage to a full court martial in Plymouth – presided over by his old nemesis, Rear-Admiral Goddard. Ramage must clear his name or face a sentence of death.