Bloody sunset - 2

In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Lieutenant Bob Cowan of the British Royal Navy must rescue a party of five women, including two of the Tsar's daughters.

With the women holed up in a refuge a hundred miles up the Astrakhan river, this will be easier said than done.

Astrakhan, where the Volga empties into the Caspian, was a Bolshevik stronghold, sizeable naval base and army command of half a million men. And the British Navy is here to fight Turks and Germans, not Bolsheviks.

How can anyone be sure - in a climate of treachery and deception - that this isn't some kind of a trap?

Getting in there will be difficult enough, what chance will he have of getting out again in the company of five aristocratic ladies?