The year is 1752 and his Britannic Majesty's sixty-gun, ship-of-the-line, Indefatigable, drops anchor at Fort St George, Madras, a trading post of the British East India Company. Discover why Thomas Neville, an officer in the 22nd Regiment of Foot and heir to a title and estates back in England, is serving on board as a common deckhand. Follow his adventures in India, his friendship with the legendary military hero and Empire builder, Robert Clive, his clash with the agents of Suraja Dowla, the sadistic Newab of Bengal, and back in England, his continuing struggle against the sinister devil worshipper, the Reverend Edwin Cruikshank. 2008.