Captain Grey's Gambit

December 1803: A French invasion fleet is poised to cross the Channel and storm the beaches of southern England. A member of Napoleons inner circledisaffected by Napoleons creeping tyrannycontacts the British naval intelligence service in hopes of defecting to London. His escape plan calls for a rendezvous at an international chess tournament in Frankfurta rare opportunity for him to travel outside France. Naval intelligence sends its top manand best chess playerCaptain Thomas Grey, to orchestrate the Frenchmans escape to England. But Greys mission changes dramatically when the defector demands that his pro-Napoleon daughter come with himexpecting Grey to act not just as escort but kidnapper. The second novel in J. H. Gelernters already lauded Captain Grey series, Captain Greys Gambit continues a story that is smart, fast, twisty, and dangerous (Lee Child) in a richly imagined early nineteenth-century world (Richard Snow).