num_pages: 158
description: CAPTAIN SEBASTIAN SHARKBaptized in blood and fire, he's a buccaneer captain of the Caribbean in the seventeenth century. Those were adventurous years, when men dared to seek their fortunes between the deadly horrors of the Spanish Inquisition and seas infested with cutthroat pirate ships.Shark was such a man, an adventurer who had faced Henry Morgan at Panama, escaped from the Barbary Corsairs, and sailed through countless battles across the Spanish Main.He considered his life merely a ticket to an uncertain future, hopefully filled with good wine, chests of gold, a fiery woman or two ... and a sturdy ship to meet the enemy and a never-ending horizon.Come aboard for a breathtaking race into the glorious past, when the seas churned with ships at war, when the skies were clouded with the smoke of battle, and the sounds of cannon and cutlass tore the air. Not since Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood has there been a tale of pirates and buccaneers as authentic and as exciting as this ... watch for the next adventure of Captain Shark!Richard Silver was a pen name used by Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005). A prolific writer, Bulmer wrote over 160 novels and many short stories, both under his real name and various pen names. He is best known for science fiction, including his long-running Dray Prescot series of planetary romances, but he wrote in many genres.
title: By Pirate's Blood
publisher: Pinnacle Books