The Bloody Black Flag: A Spider John Mystery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781633883598)

Agatha Christie meets Patrick O'Brian in the first book in a new series of swashbuckling historical mysteries featuring Spider John Rush, a most reluctant pirate. 1722--aboard a pirate ship off the American Colonial Coast. Spider John Rush never wanted to be a pirate, but it had happened and he'd learned to survive in the world of cut and thrust, fight or die. He and his friend Ezra knew that death could come at any moment, from grapeshot or storm winds or the end of a noose. But when Ezra is murdered in cold blood by a shipmate, Spider vows revenge. On a ship where every man is a killer many times over, how can Spider find the man who killed his friend? There is no law here, so if justice is to be done, he must do it. He will have to solve the crime and exact revenge himself. One wrong step will lead to certain death, but Spider is determined to look into the dying eyes of the man who killed his friend, even if it means his own death.

Author: Steve Goble
ISBN-10: 1633883590
ISBN-13: 9781633883598
Publisher: Seventh Street Books
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2017
Pages: 237
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 07/17/2017
Library Journal 08/01/2017 pg. 64