Mad MorganMacmillan, 2001 M08 15 - 320 pages A riveting and action-packed novel of the life and times of Henry Morgan, MAD MORGAN is the legendary pirate's story told with swashbuckling romance, derring-do, and an edge as sharp as Spanish steel. Born in the Welsh countryside in 1655, Henry Morgan is captured as a youth by Spanish raiders and carried off to Santiago de Cuba to a life of cruel servitude. Grown to manhood and unbowed by the slaver's whip, Morgan eventually escapes, stealing a prison ship and rescuing a crew of hardened freebooters in the process. With vengeance in his heart, Morgan sets out to harry the Dons. Before long, the turquoise waters of the Spanish Main run red with blood. No Spanish treasure ship or guarded port is safe--he is Captain Henry Morgan, "El Tigre de Caribe", the most feared buccaneer alive and an imposing figure of dread throughout the Caribbean. In a rousing adventure that culminates in Morgan's infamous and bloody conquest of the supposedly impregnable Spanish port of Panama City, Mad Morgan unfolds at a breathtaking pace. Rich with stunning detail, violence, passion and revenge this is a pirate tale that will captivate every armchair adventurer until the last, thrilling page is turned. |
Contents
The last night of peace | |
Kill me if you can | 15 |
The tiger in their midst | 27 |
Welcome to Maracaibo | 34 |
We will meet again | 50 |
Morgans walk | 59 |
The way it was once the way it is now | 68 |
so that death passed upon all men | 81 |
Acts born of desperation and greed | 187 |
It is easy to take a life | 195 |
A litany of the dead | 205 |
A chant for the dying | 215 |
I heard you | 222 |
For honor | 229 |
The devil I am | 238 |
Before I die | 243 |
Bluffed | 92 |
Every sunset is mine | 104 |
If only someone would rid me of this meddlesome rogue | 113 |
A snake in the garden | 118 |
Will you gamble with your life? | 127 |
The sea always wins | 141 |
The city of gold | 159 |
Can anyone deny you? | 166 |
And Morgan her beloved | 182 |
Nowhere to run | 250 |
the dogs of war | 260 |
The wall | 267 |
The devil at dawn | 271 |
Let them remember this day | 277 |
I have seen your heart | 286 |
Dead mens eyes | 296 |
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