Hold Fast: A Novel

Its 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels and His Majestys Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wifes untimely death, Grey resigns from the service and accepts an offer to join a lumber firm in Boston. But when a sea battle with a privateer forces the ship carrying him west to make port in neutral Portugal, Grey is approached with a counteroffer: become a wealthy man by selling out Britains spy network to France. The French take Grey for a disgruntled exnaval officer, blithely unaware that Grey had lost his wife to an unlucky shot from a French cannon.

Now, after many years serving King and Country, Grey seizes the opportunity to fight a covert war of his own. He travels to Paris, andplaying the part of the invaluable turncoat the French believe him to beproceeds to infiltrate the highest levels of Napoleons government. If he can outwit his handlers, outmatch his French counterparts and outrun Napoleons secret police, Grey may just avenge his wifes death and turn the tide of war in Englands favour. Bursting with action and intrigue, Hold Fast sends readers headlong into an unrelenting spy thriller.