Inferno

Kydd Sea Adventures by Julian Stockwin

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YDD

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RTEMIS

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EAFLOWER

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UTINY

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UARTERDECK

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ENACIOUS

C
OMMAND

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DMIRAL
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D
AUGHTER

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HE
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RIVATEER
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EVENGE
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I
NVASION

V
ICTORY

C
ONQUEST

B
ETRAYAL

C
ARIBBEE

P
ASHA

T
YGER

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Published in the U.K. as
T
REACHERY

Published by McBooks Press 2016, simultaneously published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton,
an Hachette UK company.

Copyright ©2016 by Julian Stockwin. The right of Julian Stockwin to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without written permission of the publisher. Address requests for such permissions to McBooks Press, Inc., ID Booth Building, 520 North Meadow St., Ithaca, NY 14850.

Cover Illustration © Larry Rostant.

Maps by Rodney Paull used with permission from Hodder & Stoughton.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Stockwin, Julian, author.

Title: Inferno / Julian Stockwin.

Description: Ithaca, New York : McBooks Press, 2016. | Series: Kydd sea adventures ; book 17

Identifiers: LCCN 2016026693 (print) | LCCN 2016033633 (ebook) | ISBN 9781590137352 (hardcover : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781590137376 (epub) | ISBN 9781590137369 (mobipocket) | ISBN 9781590137383 ( pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Kydd, Thomas (Fictitious character)--Fiction. | Great Britain--History, Naval--19th century--Fiction. | Sailors--Fiction. | Seafaring life--Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Sea Stories. | FICTION / Action & Adventure. | GSAFD: Historical fiction. | Sea stories.

Classification: LCC PR6119.T66 I54 2016 (print) | LCC PR6119.T66 (ebook) | DDC 823/.92--dc23

LC record available at
https://lccn.loc.gov/2016026693

All characters in this publication are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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(*indicates fictitious character)

*Sir Thomas Kydd, captain of HMS
Tyger

*Nicholas Renzi, Earl of Farndon, friend and former confidential secretary

Tyger
, ship's company

*Bowden, second lieutenant

*Bray, first lieutenant

*Brice, third lieutenant

*Dillon, Kydd's confidential secretary

*Doud, quartermaster's mate

*Halgren, coxswain

*Joyce, ship's master

*Maynard, master's mate

*Stirk, gunner's mate

Others

*Adams, lieutenant, 52nd Regiment of Foot

Alexander I, Russian tsar

Antoine, Duc d'Angoulême, husband of Marie-Thérèse of France

Baird, lieutenant general

Bennigsen, German general in service with the Russian Empire

Bernadotte, Maréchal de France

Bernstorff, Christian, foreign minister, Kiel

Bernstorff, Joachim, minister in Copenhagen

Bielefeldt,
generalløjtnant
, in command Danish land forces

Bille,
kommandør
, sea defences

Bloomfield, major general, artillery

Bonaparte, French emperor

Bruun, Danish gunboat captain

Canning, British foreign secretary

Castenschiold, general, artillery

Castlereagh, British secretary of war

Cathcart, general, commander-in-chief British land forces

*Cecilia, Countess of Farndon, née Kydd

Christian VII, Danish king

Colville, captain, Gambier's fleet

Congreve, colonel, in charge of rockets

d'Antraigues, French royalist, spy

d'Artois, count, brother of French king, Louis XVIII

Danican, French spy

*Devenant, colonel, Whitehall functionary

Duke of Portland, prime minister

Essington, retired admiral recalled; as a captain gave Kydd his step to the quarterdeck

*Finch, major general, Guards

Frederik, Danish crown prince, regent

Gambier, admiral, a.k.a. Dismal Jimmy

Garlike, head of diplomatic mission, Copenhagen

*Gobineau, chargé d'affaires in Copenhagen for the French Empire

Granville, British ambassador to Russia

Graves, captain, Gambier's fleet

Grey, earl and Whig in opposition

*Halvorsen, envoy of Swedish patriots

*Heyer, sergeant, 52nd Regiment of Foot

*Hofdame Rosen, chief nurse to Christian VII

*Jakes, soldier, 52nd Regiment of Foot

*Jeb, Stirk's brother

*Jominie, capitaine

Keats, commodore, Gambier's fleet

Krieger,
kommandørkaptajn
, Danish Navy

Lecoq, French assassin

Linsing, major general, cavalry

Lord Eldon, lord high chancellor

Louis XVIII, Count of Provence

*Ludlow, lieutenant general, Coldstream Guards

Marie-Thérèse, eldest child of guillotined Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

*Maynard, Francis, ensign of the 52nd Regiment of Foot

*McFadden, a.k.a. Laddie, fisherman

*McFadden, Laurie, son of McFadden

*McGillie, Constance, Stirk's sister

*Meares, chandler

*Meyen, waiter

*Møller, lord high chamberlain

*Moreau, commandant

Mulgrave, first lord of the admiralty

Murray, deputy quartermaster general

*Överste Taksa, colonel, Swedish patriots

Oxholm, general major

Perceval, chancellor of the exchequer

Peymann,
generalmajor
, commander defences of Copenhagen

Popham, captain of the fleet

*Reid, corporal

Rist, Danish chargé d'affaires, London

Russell, admiral

Stewart, brigadier, 43rd Monmouth Regiment

Swenson, Danish gunboat captain

Tucker, British envoy

Wellesley, major general, later the Duke of Wellington

Westmorland, lord privy seal

Wilhelm Friedrich, Prussian king

Wulff, gunboat captain

Zeuthen, gunboat captain