THE CAPE COLONY, 19TH CENTURYSOUTH AFRICA.Jamie Fyvie and Iain McColl sail forCape Town to wage war on the ELOS, a darkforce which has taken control of the armed forces in the Cape Colony.The boys must crush a plot to wipe outthe Xhosa clans of the Eastern Cape, thesurvivors to be sold into slavery in America.The voyage sees them battle withmutineers to save their own livesand two young ladies who will becomepart of their future in the CapeAn ELOS executioner pursues Jamie and Iain, hell-bent on murdering them for theclues to a treasure buried by the KnightsTemplar five hundred years in the past.The Xhosa fight a bloody war againstthe British Army on the frontier, dyingto win back their lands and freedomagainst a general who takes no prisoners