Until the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead

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'Not a hundred yards distant, the night opened in a blossom of orange flame and roiling smoke.'

Ordered to the West Indies where they are to harass French colonial shipping, Captain Charles Hayden and HMS Themis rescue a pair of Spanish castaways en route. This is lucky for the Spaniards but less so for Hayden who soon finds that his guests are not quite what they claim.

Caught between the French, predatory privateers and a vainglorious British commander, Hayden discovers that the Caribbean is a lawless sea with many squalls to sink the unwary seaman. Survival depends on rapidly identifying friend and foe - but which are the two castaways still aboard Themis?

This is the gripping fourth tale in the epic maritime adventures of Charles Hayden, a masterpiece to rival the stories of Bernard Cornwell and Patrick O'Brian.