In a frigate stolen from his own navy, Captain Favian Markham
races to New Orleans with the dispatches he's captured from a British warship-
dispatches making it clear that the city will soon be the target of a British
fleet and an invading army.
But Favian finds New Orleans a city of intrigue, where Creoles
conspire against the Americans, where
streetfighters cloak their murders under the Code Duello, the pirate
Jean Laffite battles the Navy, and a cabal of elite soldiers conspire to hand
the city to the enemy— and where two sensuous Creole women, Eugenie and
Campaspe, vie for his favor.
In order to resist the coming invasion, Favian must fight his way
clear of conspiracy and unite the divided city, and soon discovers that in
order to buy time for the defenders, he must sacrifice his own ship, and his
own career, in a hopeless fight against an overwhelming power . . .
In a frigate stolen from his own navy, Captain Favian Markham
races to New Orleans with the dispatches he's captured from a British warship-
dispatches making it clear that the city will soon be the target of a British
fleet and an invading army.
But Favian finds New Orleans a city of intrigue, where Creoles
conspire against the Americans, where
streetfighters cloak their murders under the Code Duello, the pirate
Jean Laffite battles the Navy, and a cabal of elite soldiers conspire to hand
the city to the enemy— and where two sensuous Creole women, Eugenie and
Campaspe, vie for his favor.
In order to resist the coming invasion, Favian must fight his way
clear of conspiracy and unite the divided city, and soon discovers that in
order to buy time for the defenders, he must sacrifice his own ship, and his
own career, in a hopeless fight against an overwhelming power . . .
In a frigate stolen from his own navy, Captain Favian Markham
races to New Orleans with the dispatches he's captured from a British warship-
dispatches making it clear that the city will soon be the target of a British
fleet and an invading army.
But Favian finds New Orleans a city of intrigue, where Creoles
conspire against the Americans, where
streetfighters cloak their murders under the Code Duello, the pirate
Jean Laffite battles the Navy, and a cabal of elite soldiers conspire to hand
the city to the enemy— and where two sensuous Creole women, Eugenie and
Campaspe, vie for his favor.
In order to resist the coming invasion, Favian must fight his way
clear of conspiracy and unite the divided city, and soon discovers that in
order to buy time for the defenders, he must sacrifice his own ship, and his
own career, in a hopeless fight against an overwhelming power . . .
