Frank Sherry

Born to sail the high seas, young Englishman Bart Roberts shipped aboard the merchant trader Princess bound for the dark continent of Africa. But Roberts was headed for another destiny that began when his vessel was waylaid by cruel freebooters off the Guinea Coast. His sword spilling pirate blood on the well-worn decks, Roberts fought furiously until the brigands overran his ship, killing the captain and forcing him to become part of their crew. But he learned the buccaneer craft faster than most and soon he was captain of the Royal Fortune,and flying the black flag as the scourge of the Atlantic. His Majesty’s warships, no match for the twenty-four pounders and nimble speed of his ship, “Black” Bart sailed south to the Caribbean, preying upon treasure-laden galleons headed back from the New World. But when dreaded Don Esteban, commander of the Spanish fleet off Hispaniola, planned to attack the island of Nassau, the commander of the Royal Navy turned to Black Bart Roberts, the man he called “the Devil’s Captain” with a bold plan of treachery that ended in a great sea battle that left the sea red with Spanish blood.