内容简介:Set sail for Africa with gentleman Captain Matthew Quinton. When a captured Barbary pirate tells a tale of a mountain of gold, Quinton has his doubts, but King Charles II can’t resist the chance to?secure a limitless source of wealth. On orders from his king, Quinton embarks on a voyage to the African unknown.?As he gets closer, and as sabotage attempts pile up, he begins to wonder if there is truth in the legend after all . . . Back in England, the king has arranged a marriage between Quinton’s elder brother and a mysterious lady rumored to have murdered her previous husbands. Will Quinton be able to find the fabled mountain of gold and return home in time to protect his family? This sequel to Gentleman Captain expands the world of that novel while providing readers with another rousing nautical adventure.
作者简介:J. D. DAVIES was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. Educated at Jesus College, Oxford, he?is one of the foremost authorities on the seventeenth-century British navy and has written widely on the subject, most recently in Pepys’s Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare, 1649–1689, winner of the Samuel Pepys Award.