Publisher's Synopsis
"Great...an exciting read." THE SUNDAY TIMES Continuation of THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS. It is April 1903, and professional racing yacht skipper Charlie Webb has been summoned to a secret meeting with a mysterious gentleman yachtsman called Carruthers. For a thousand pounds he's to take a yacht, GLORIA, into the Frisian Islands, where the treacherous tides supposedly hide a Napoleonic wreck loaded with bullion. But Charlie suspects that the enigmatic Carruthers is rather more concerned with the Kaiser's new navy than with any wreck...
