Captain Blood

What happens when a gentleman doctor becomes the most feared pirate in the Caribbean? In 1685, after the failed Monmouth rebellion, Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician with a sharp tongue and even sharper wit, finds himself sentenced to slavery on the sun-baked island of Barbados. His crime: treating the wounded rebels. His punishment: a lifetime of chains. But Blood is not a man who accepts his fate quietly. With nothing but his intellect, his medical knowledge, and an unbreakable will, he seizes his first ship and charts a course toward legend. As the terror of the Caribbean, he earns a reputation as both merciless raider and strangely merciful captain, one who honors surrendered ships and brings Spanish galleons to ruin. When the Governor of Jamaica offers him a royal pardon in exchange for his services against the Spanish, Blood must decide whether a pirate can ever truly come in from the sea. Sabatini invented the romantic pirate captain decades before Hollywood discovered Errol Flynn. This is swashbuckling adventure at its finest: quick-witted, fast-paced, and utterly thrilling. For anyone who has ever dreamed of charted waters and uncharted freedom.