When Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded to make certain investments in the city, this innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a deliberate plot?
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