Book 12 of the Dorset Boy Series. The Napoleonic war is over and Napoleon is safely stowed away on the island of St. Helena in the middle of the Atlantic. But far from getting a well deserved break Marty has to thwart an attempted assassination in Paris before taking to the Mediterranean in support of the Ottomans. But is that his real mission or just a smoke screen? The Ottoman Empire is crumbling and there are big prizes to be had with careful preparation. Job done he returns to England to find the Prime Minister waiting to send him away again. This time in a diplomatic role as the new Military Attache in Calcutta while the British are at war with the Maratha Empire. But as everyone knows Military attache's are all spy's, aren't they? The family go with him. Beth and James' emerging talents are tested to the limit as a dynasty is born.