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A desperate sea battle; a fortune risked on the turn of a card; a duel at dawn with the loser�Patrick O�Brian meets James Bond. It�s 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty�s Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife�s untimely death, Grey resigns from the service and accepts an offer to join a lumber firm in Boston. But when a sea battle with a privateer forces the ship carrying him west to make port in neutral Portugal, Grey is approached with a counteroffer: become a wealthy man by selling out Britain�s spy network to France. The French take Grey for a disgruntled ex�naval officer, blithely unaware that Grey had lost his wife to an unlucky shot from a French cannon. Now, after many years serving King and Country, Grey seizes the opportunity to fight a covert war of his own. He travels to Paris, and�playing the part of the invaluable turncoat the French believe him to be�proceeds to infiltrate the highest levels of Napoleon�s government. If he can outwit his handlers, outmatch his French counterparts, and outrun Napoleon�s secret police, Grey may just avenge his wife�s death and turn the tide of war in England�s favor. Bursting with action and intrigue, Hold Fast sends readers headlong into an unrelenting spy thriller.