HMS Expedient1786: Captain William Rennie is on the beach and on half pay when he's given a prime commission: HMS Expedient is a 36 gun frigate; she is to be sent to the South Seas on a scientific expedition. For Lieutenant James Hayter, in Dorsetshire, whose career had barely begun when the peace came, his own commission in Expedient out of the blue is equally surprising and exciting. But for these two sea officers there is something odd and disturbing about the

Elizabeth 1s spymaster

Tom follows a trail to Rome where he finds Allegra piecing together a similar mystery

but the Club was formalised with a constitution and rules in1932

He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless and whose dangers are endless

and at six o'clock every day

arrives upon Lanka's shores

in the economy

For some it would be fight or flight time

His disturbing art is shunned by patrons and critics alike

And he needs to start with himself

Dorothy wonders if an attic sale could be a solution

where a century earlier they were slaughtered by the thousands