The Maddest Idea: An Isaac Biddlecomb Novel (Isaac Biddlecomb Novels)

In the late summer of 1775 General George Washington discovers that his cache of gunpowder has dwindled to a mere nine shots per man. A desperate plan is hatched―to send a ship under the command of Captain Isaac Biddlecomb to Bermuda to capture the British powder known to be there. But the plan is a trap set by a traitor among the patriots and one from which even Biddlecomb cannot escape. Washington dispatches his aide-de-camp Major Edward Fitzgerald to hunt the traitor down while Biddlecomb must rely on cunning and seamanship to free his men and the ship and to capture the gunpowder that is the lifeblood of the fight for liberty.. . Divided by an ocean but bound by the cause as well as by their own private fears Biddlecomb and Fitzgerald must take on a common enemy―the greatest military power on earth.. . This is a powerful saga of the American Revolution―a stirring maritime adventure in the epic true-to-life tradition of Patrick O’Brian.