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In the second Hector Lynch adventure, the young seafarer falls into the hands of the notorious buccaneer Captain John Coxon, who mistakes him for the nephew of Sir Thomas Lynch, Governor of Jamaica. Hector encourages the error so that his friend Jacques and Dan can go free. Coxon delivers Hector to Sir Henry Morgan, a biter enemy of Governor Lynch. The captain expects to curry favour with Morgan, but is publicly humiliated when the deception is revealed. From now on, Hector has a dangerous enemy. Befriended by Jezreel, an ex-prize fighter, Hector meets up again with Jacques and Dan, and the four comrades join the great buccaneer raid which marches through the jungle and attacks Panama. The capture of a high Spanish official’s wife leads Hector into a web of deceit. Thanks to his skills as a negotiator, the buccaneers ransom their captive in exchange for safe passage out of the South Sea, only to discover when they arrive back in the West Indies they are wanted men. Captain Coxon has turned state’s evidence and Hector stands accused of murder and piracy. His survival depends on a young Spanish woman with whom he has fallen in love and the secret intelligence he had gained .. Drawing on the original diaries and logbooks of men detested by their Spanish opponents as outright pirates, Tim Severin brings to life a world of rapacious sea captains, rum-sodden colonial officials, wealthy plantation heiresses, and reckless adventurers whose fortunes depend on their skill with musket and cutlass. Buy this book
1677, on a late summer's evening, two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. They are Barbary corsairs from North Africa, slave catchers. As soon as it is dark, their landing parties row ashore to raid a small fishing village - on the hunt for fresh prey...In the village, seventeen-year-old Hector Lynch wakes to the sound of a pistol shot. Moments later, he and his sister Elizabeth are taken prisoner. From then on, Hector's life plunges into a turbulent and lawless world that is full of surprises. Separated from Elizabeth, he is sold to the slave market of Algiers, where he survives with the help of his newfound friend Dan, a Miskito Indian from the Caribbean. The two men convert to Islam to escape the horrors of the slave pens, only to become victims of the deadly warfare of the Mediterranean. Serving aboard a Turkish corsair ship, their vessel is sunk at sea and they find themselves condemned to the oar as galley slaves for France. Driven by his quest to find his sister, Hector finally stumbles on the chilling truth of her fate when he and Dan are shipwrecked on the coast of Morocco...
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