Book description
Sailing across the Caribbean Hector Lynch falls into the hands of the
notorious buccaneer, Captain John Coxon. Hector's two friends, Dan and
Jacques, are released when Coxon mistakes Hector as the nephew of Sir
Thomas Lynch the Governor of Jamaica - an error that Hector encourages.
Coxon delivers Hector to Sir Henry Morgan, a bitter enemy of Governor
Lynch. The captain is expecting to curry favour with Henry Morgan but is
publicly humiliated at a Christmas ball held in Morgan's grand Jamaican
home when it is revealed that Hector is not a member of the Governor's
family. From then on, Coxon seeks to revenge himself on Hector and the
young seafarer finds himself on the run again. On his new journey he
falls in love for the first time, gets caught in a deadly hurricane and
merely survives another shipwreck. Eventually he teams up again with his
old friends Dan, Jacques and the group joins an expedition along the
Panama coast. Their aim is to raid one of the biggest Spanish gold
mines, but their plans are soon interfered by some angry Spaniards. . .
and their clash has even more dramatic consequences . . .
Tim Severin, explorer, traveller, author, film-maker and lecturer
has made many expeditions, most recently in search of Moby Dick and
Robinson Crusoe, and has written books about all of them. He made his
historical fiction debut with the hugely successful VIKING series.
BUCCANEER is his second Hector Lynch novel.
