"Bill Westbrook's follow-up to The Bermuda Privateer is buoyed by
details of history and seamanship that will delight any fan of saltwater
yarns and explosive action."--Broos Campbell author of the Matty Graves
Novels
That dashing British privateer Nicholas Fallon is back again, helping
himself to a fistful of mayhem in The Black Ring.
The year is 1798. The African slave trade is in brutal flower, and the
great powers are fighting for control of the Caribbean's immensely
profitable sugar plantations.
Nico, meanwhile, has been trying his damnedest to become a salt merchant
under Ezra Somers, father of the beautiful Elinore. But when an urgent
request arrives from Admiral Davies of the Leeward Island Station, Ezra
and Elinore give Nico their blessing to head off in search of plunder
and adventure.
Sailing aboard the American-built topsail schooner Rascal, Nico takes
on the job of slipping a secret agent into Cuba, but soon becomes
entangled in numerous dangers--or opportunities, as he likes to call
them. There's an escaped slave trying to burn every stalk of sugarcane
in Cuba, a pirate running riot with a flotilla of "little wolves," an
admiral's lady that needs a bit of rescuing, and a French plot that
threatens Britain's very presence in the islands.
