Watermen

It is 1798 in the Port of London: a cruel villain holds sway over the underworld.

His face is savaged by lime, his back scarred by two hundred lashes - Boylin is not a man to be crossed. Yet there is one person he loathes and fears - his captain and shipmate, Tom Pascoe, the man he blames for his Court Martial and the terrible punishment that followed.

They meet again when Pascoe becomes River Surve...