Joshua Vine had left his Dorset home to pursue his fortune on the high seas. Since then, only rumour had charted his extraordinary career tales of piracy in Irish waters, of privateering in the Caribbean, of an alliance with the great Sultan. It was said that Vine enjoyed the devil's luck and when he returned home with a knighthood from the Queen and her commission to attack the
Spaniards, he had little difficulty in attracting volunteers, although secrecy shrouded his plans.
Among those who joined Tigress was Tom Dakyn, going to sea as generations of his family had done before, in the hope of making his fortune to secure his family's home, and to marry his Alis.
Only Dakyn and his father knew the full extent of Vine's audacious plan - to snatch from the Spanish crown one full half-year's shipment of gold ...
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