Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey is a naval commander whose ship comes under heavy fire from a vastly superior enemy vessel while on patrol off the Brazilian coast during the Napoleonic wars. Only the luck of the gods and Jack's renowned cunning save him and the crew from certain doom, enabling their ship to slip away from battle before all is lost in the icy depths of the ocean. With his pride and his ship in a poor way Jack vows to turn the tables on his foe and so begins a tense game of cat and mo find out more...

Grady Tripp is an award winning novelist, the only problem is that this was seven years ago and he seems unable to relinquish the second book to his increasingly agitated publishers. To compound matters Grady's personal life is crumbling around him and the characters that frequent his world don't appear to be helping matters. All comes to a head one frantic, farcical and nerve shredding weekend, a series of mishaps that may consign him to the scrap heap forever or perhaps provide him with the op find out more...