Blue Water – The Instant Times Bestseller (Paperback)

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Laurence Jago did not intend to become a spy. Or a sailor. Or anything resembling a hero. Yet as the new year dawns in 1795, he finds himself aboard a mail ship crossing the Atlantic, carrying a false identity and a secret responsibility that could alter the course of a war.

His task is simple in theory. Protect a civil servant bound for Congress with a treaty meant to keep America out of conflict with Britain. When that man dies in what looks like an accident, the treaty vanishes with him, and the voyage turns dangerous in ways the sea alone cannot explain.

Confined to the ship with a handful of fellow passengers, each with their own reasons for travel and concealment, Laurence is forced into the role of investigator. Time presses. Trust is scarce. One wrong assumption could be fatal.

Blue Water is a brisk, intelligent historical mystery that balances intrigue with dry wit, set against the shifting loyalties and uneasy politics of the late eighteenth century.