It is 1752 and His Britannic Majesty's sixty-gun ship-of- the-line, INDEFATIGABLE, drops anchor at Fort St George, Madras, a trading post of the British East India Company... Discover why Thomas Neville, an officer in the 22nd Regiment of Foot and heir to a title and estates back in England, serves on board as a common deckhand... Follow his adventures in India, his friendship with the Empire builder, Robert Clive, his clash with the agents of Suraja Dowla, the sadistic Nawab of Bengal...and back in England, his struggle against the sinister devil worshipper, the Reverend Edwin Cruikshank.