Another great Ramage novel. True, the Captain seems to be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound unlike Bolitho, Hornblower, Kidd, or Lewrie, but all of his books have been well written and hard to put down. I'm just sorry to see the end of the series in sight. If I had to write anything else that detracted from the book, it would be the repeated use of the French, Spanish or Italian names of every headland, bay, shoal, rock, fort, town or tower they come across. A slight distraction in any case, and I would highly recommend the series to anyone interested in historical, nautical, or Napoleonic era fiction.