Book#3 in the series. Note: Some yellowing of pages at the edges, crease on front cover on upper right corner. Binding intact. "Nelson now sails honorably with the squadron of naval fiction scribes currently led by Patrick O'Brian....His pacing is brisk and the salt air blows through every chapter." —Roland Green, Booklist With the flash of cutlass and the roar of cannon fire, this sweeping saga of high-seas adventure continues-as the revolutionaries' figbt for freedom explodes into all-out war.... THE CONTINENTAL RISQUE It's the winter of 1776, a year that brings with it a fiery new spirit of colonial independence. A decade of simmering tensions have finally come to a boil, and the rebel government in Philadelpia, determined to cast off the chains of British tyranny, has authorized the creation of the United States Navy-a brazen act of American aggression against the greatest maritime power in the world. Still battered from ber fight in Bermudan waters, the brig-of-war Charlemagne, under Captain Isaac Biddlecomb, sets sail on a daring mission to raid the British store of arms on New Providence Island in the Bahamas. But even as the captain takes the lead in the first amphibious assault in American naval bistory, be discovers that his greatest enemy is an undisciplined crew led to the brink of muting by their sectional hatreds. Beset by treachery and betrayal, in danger of losing his command and his ship, Biddlecomb must find a way to unite bis men against a cruel and common foe...as the Royal Navy prepares to sink the Charlemagne-and the revolution-under the merciless blasts of its guns.