𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐲

Author: Wilbur Smith, 554 pages, paperback.
It is 1667 and Sir Francis Courteney and his son Henry “Hal” Courteney are on patrol in their fighting caravel off the Agulhas Cape of Southern Africa. They have a letter from Charles II sanctioning them to hunt down and capture enemy ships “beyond the line”.*Yellowed pages*