In the reign of George III the notorious Lord Camelford alternately horrified and amused his respectible contemporaries . Into the 29 years of his brief life he managed to fit an amazing sucession of exploits. As a boy he sailed with Vancouver to the Pacific, fell out with the Captain, was repeatedly flogged, and finally abandoned in Hawaii. Making his way home along with a British secret agent he encountered in Ceylon, he rejoined the Navy, thrashed Vancouver publicly in London, was court-martialled for killing a fellow officer and finally resigned his commission after yet more extraordinary scenes. Unable to contain his restless energies, Camelford next became involved in a series of complex intrigues, culminating in a secret expedition to France. From the files of the Secret Police in France the author has been able to reconstruct Camelford's adventures that read as though they came from a novel by Baroness Orczy!