Following the loss of his fiancée, Lieutenant Thomas Kydd descends into depression in this installment of the riveting nautical-adventure series. Rescued from

North Carolina possesses one of the longest, most treacherous coastlines in the United States, and the waters off its shores have been the scene of some of the

"A privateer, strickly speaking, was a private armed vessel carrying no cargo and devoted exclusively to warlike use."--Intro., p. 14.