1. East Indiaman
William is an orphan surviving among the wharves and alleys of East London, where petty theft is less a choice than a means of eating. Life among the dockside ‘wharf rats’ teaches him speed, suspicion and the value of disappearing before trouble arrives, but one theft…
2. The Tiger and the Thief
Bill “Smudger” Smith has hidden his past as a London wharf thief inside the ranks of the East India Company’s army. He still thinks about escape, but the very skills he learned in the streets—stealth, deception and reading other people’s intentions—make him valuable when the Company…
3. Bloody Assaye
In India, the East India Company’s armies prepare for another major campaign as the Wellesley brothers seek to extend British influence through alliances and battlefield victory. Fresh troops arrive eager for action, but enthusiasm gives way quickly to the realities of heat, distance, unfamiliar enemies and…