Rapscallion

<p>Matthew Hawkwood ex-soldier turned Bow Street Runner goes undercover to hunt down smugglers and traitors at the height of the Napoleonic Wars in this thrilling follow-up to Ratcatcher.</p> <p>For a French prisoner of war there is only one fate worse than the gallows: the hulks. Former man-o'-wars now converted to prison ships their fearsome reputation guarantees a sentence served in the most dreadful conditions.</p> <p>Few survive. Escape it's said is impossible.</p> <p>Yet reports persist of a sinister smuggling operation within this brutal world – and the Royal Navy is worried enough to send two of its officers to investigate.</p> <p>But when they disappear without trace the Navy turns in desperation to Bow Street for help. It's time to send in a man as dangerous as the prey. It's time to send in Hawkwood…</p>