About Buccaneer’s Blade:
Elizabethan England is a kingdom of plots, ambition, and bloodshed – and young Talbot Slanning is about to lose everything.
Forced to flee after a duel ends in death, Talbot escapes the gallows only through the intervention of the notorious privateer Francis Drake. With the Queen’s agents closing in behind him, Talbot has only two choices: remain in England and hang, or sail for the New World beside the most feared seaman of the age. He chooses the sea.
Yet danger stalks Talbot even among his own companions. For his ruthless enemy, Tom Gillard, still lives… and some feuds can only end in blood.
From the royal courts of England to the pirate-haunted Caribbean, Buccaneer’s Blade is a sweeping historical adventure packed with sea battles, intrigue, revenge, and daring exploits on the Spanish Main.
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Author Bio:
Donald Barr Chidsey (1902-1981) was a frequent contributor to the pulp magazines in the 1930s, even as he developed a more socially acceptable career as a historical novelist and biographer. Early on he dabbled in private eye fiction for such magazines as Star Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, Dime Detective, and Black Mask, where he wrote tough stuff about homicide cops and busybody newshawks. He became best known for adventure stories, swift and flavorful historical fiction, much of it set at sea, where the author had spent some time himself. His biographies included the life stories of such personages as Bonnie Prince Charlie (1720-1788) and Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618).