Description

In the entire year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka half cocked Jack -- devises a daring intend to win freedom and fortune. An excellent adventure ensues -- a race for a massive prize of silver, nay, gold, nay, legendary gold. In Europe, the beautiful and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and in danger from people who desire either her or her head (or both), she's swept up in a web of international intrigue, even while she desperately seeks the return of her most valuable possession.