New Zealand, 1881: Sgt. Frank Hardy is confined to Somes Island in Wellington Harbour, in quarantine, when an American detective tells him that his father is in trouble. A shipboard romance has put him in the sights of a gang from San Francisco. Hardy needs to get off the island and to Napier before his father to save his life. A chase by steam launch, buggy, barouche, horseback and train follows. Can Hardy catch his father before the gang catches him? And what will happen when he gets captured himself? Can he free himself and save his father/

For readers who like a well-researched historical thriller/adventure/mystery with in an unusual setting.