The Devil Ship was well named, both by its creators and by those who would have to face it.

Yet when it sailed from Liverpool on its maiden voyage, a false destination was given to the press to hide its real purpose and mission. Not even its Captain and crew could know its true destination. The ship was called the Nemesis. Yet her Captain, Master William Hall, Royal Navy, found he would soon have the company of a most mysterious man, a company man, who supposedly knew the answers to all of his many questions. Along the way, the ship is being steered through the unfathomable waters of fate as well as the wild seas of the world.

Where were they going? What was the Nemesis designed to do? What were his orders? Soon the Devil Ship would shake all under heaven in the clash of two of the world's great Empires, where the fate of each would hang in the balance.

He was bound for mystery and destiny in one throw, half way around the world, where a clash of two cultures, two great empires, would write one of the darkest chapters of modern history ever seen. Something was telling him this would be grand, daring, bold beyond his imaginings, and yet terribly wrong.

The Devil Ship

By

John Schettler

Prologue

Part I – A Curious Secret

Part II – Trouble at Sea

Part III – The Coming Storm

Part IV – Confrontation

Part V – The Mandate of Heaven

Part VI – Clash of Empires

Part VII – Death of a Thousand Cuts

Part VIII– The Lion and Dragon

Part IX – Black Wind

Part X – The Final March

Part XI – The Garden of Perfect Brightness

Part XII – Calamity

Afterword