Robert Wrenville, a French and English nobleman, kills the nephew of the King of France in a duel. After being betrayed and sold as a galley slave to the Barbary Coast of Africa, he escapes back to France. There he finds his wife dead and father imprisoned, and is thrust into the chaos of the French Revolution as he tries to free his father from the hated prison of the Bastille. The first book in this exciting historical saga.