Originally published: Beware, Beware the Bight of Benin. London : Barker, 1974.
Summary
It's the 1890s, and Royal Navy Lieutenant St Vincent Halfhyde finds himself out of favour with the Navy and on half-pay ashore when he is summoned to the Admiralty. His mission: to sail to the Bight of Benin in West Africa and spy on the not-so-secret Russian presence there.