The flag of freedom

the long version

1797. A victorious French Army, led by the youthful Napoleon Bonaparte, is poised to invade Britain. And in his country's darkest hour, Captain Nathan Peake finds himself charged with treason. Nathan needs to prove his innocence by uncovering the great deception that masks the true French war aims. Is the great armada being gathered together in Toulon headed for the shores of Ireland, England - or Egypt? Nathan finds himself hurled into the bizarre, seductive and violent world of the Barbary Coast, it involves him in one of the greatest battles of the eighteenth century, and will force him to call upon all of his strength and ingenuity if he is to survive at all!