The French have gone east. Frederick Harris must follow them.

At twenty-four, Captain Frederick Harris has already won fortune, reputation and command of the powerful frigate Charybdis. But victory has come at a bitter price. Widowed and left with an infant son, Frederick throws himself back into the only life he truly understands: the Navy.

His orders send him halfway around the world in pursuit of a marauding French squadron threatening Britain’s hold on the East Indies. Yet Charybdis sails desperately short of men, forcing Frederick to rebuild his crew from an unlikely mix of hardened sailors, Indian seamen and disgraced soldiers shipped aboard after a mutiny at the Cape.

Across the Indian Ocean and through the Spice Islands, the hunt gathers pace. The French must be found before they can establish a new foothold in the Pacific.

Frederick has faced French cannon before. This time, victory may leave him with a reputation stranger — and far more notorious — than anything he has yet earned.

The Fuzzy-Wuzzy Man is the third novel in Andrew Wareham’s Duty and Destiny series: a sweeping tale of naval warfare, ambition and adventure in the age of sail.