内容简介：
This first part of the Haggard family saga takes us from the West Indies and the end of the American War of Independence to the England of the Napoleonic Wars. Christopher Nicole evokes all the color and drama of the era as he traces the fortunes of Haggard and the women he loved and abused; above all, as he relates the tragedy of a nabob at the dawn of a more humanitarian age who found the tide of history too strong for him.