Jonas Flynt’s stepmother, Mercy, has been abducted from Edinburgh and carried back to the West Indies by her former owner.
Gideon Flynt his father, has followed in hot pursuit, but Cassie, Jonas’s first love, knows he is not the man he once was and appeals to Flynt for help. Naturally, he agrees.
Against Colonel Nathaniel Charters’s wishes, he sails for the Caribbean, where he will unwittingly join forces with the most notorious pirate of all time, Blackbeard.
But this time he may be out of his depth.
Ship of Thieves by Douglas Skelton is published in paperback on 5 March, 2026.
Douglas has written about the historical background to his books in Crime and politics in the early 18th century.
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