Captain Sir John Wharton RN and his new ship-of-the-line HMS Dominion are sent up the Baltic Sea to Stockholm and St Petersburg on a mission to seek peace treaties with Sweden and Russia.
With intelligence that Napoleon is planning to invade Russia, ‘Tiger’ Wharton knows that he has a chance to persuade Czar Alexander and the new Crown Prince of Sweden, Marshal Bernadotte, to abandon their allegiance to France and join Britain’s fight against the dictator Bonaparte.
With a massive French army poised to strike North, Wharton’s flotilla is in place to disrupt its vital sea supply route.