An Agent of the King

Archie Dexter is a hedonistic young man, in trouble since the day he was born. With Britain at war with France, Archie finds himself in the army, a lion in battle but never far from scandal back home. Now given one final chance of redemption, he is assigned to the staff of Admiral Horatio Nelson.In the dangerous days of 1798 Archie finds himself alone and trapped in Egypt following Napoleon’s invasion. Somehow he will survive to play a pivotal role in Nelson’s famous victory at the Battle of the Nile. Wounded and thrown into captivity it will be many years before Archie returns to London where as a member of a secretive department of the Aliens Office, he will battle the increasingly violent French agents who are plotting and murdering their way across Europe. Together with an oddball assortment of comrades Archie must travel to Spain on a vital mission to rescue an invaluable British spy, the one man capable of enabling Pitt’s government to secure an alliance with any chance of defeating Napoleon. However it is on the streets of London that Archie will face his sternest test, where failure will force him to choose between the life of those dearest to him and the King of England himself. Archibald Dexter is at times a reluctant hero caught up in the turbulent times of the Napoleonic Wars. An Agent of the King is a fast paced, gritty and exciting action thriller that takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through North Africa and Europe via the bordellos, slums and ballrooms of Georgian London. In the tradition of Sharpe, with a little Harry Flashman thrown in for good measure, Archie Dexter is a new breed of hero battling Britain's eternal enemy in one of the country's darkest hours. Cunningly woven around real historical events this is a novel that will excite, entertain and educate along the way.