"Lt. George Markham of Her Majestys Royal Marines has earned his reputation for trouble. So his superiors assign him to a suicide mission battling the French over the island of Corsica. Surrounded by spies, traitors, and rivals--including a jealous husband--Markhams only hope lies in the men under his command, whom the top brass believe are the scum of the earth. Enemies abound, in both French blue and British red"--.