<p>"The book is absorbingly interesting: dramatic, subtle, fascinating with allurement." ? The New York Times.<br>Captain Tom Lingard is on his way to help his friends, a Malay prince and princess, reclaim their stolen land when he gets distracted by a marooned yacht. Lingard feels obliged to help his fellow Europeans out of their plight ? and he's increasingly attracted to Edith Travers, the married woman on board ? but his rescue of the pleasur...