On the road to Luscombe, young Jack Hardy falls in with a mysterious Monsieur de Fronsac and soon finds the coast alive with smugglers, signal lights and midnight excursions. A fight in the market and a plan gone wrong lead to capture and imprisonment in France, where Jack glimpses Bonaparte himself reviewing the army gathered for the invasion of England, before a bid for freedom.
Smuggling, escape and the invasion scare of the Napoleonic years, told at a gallop for young readers. Download the free EPUB.