A Spread of Sail

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James Dillon White "A Spread of Sail"

This latest in James Dillon White's strong-selling stories of naval action in the mid-eighteenth century finds Roger Kelso as a young man, captain of the frigate Paragon and already one of the most resourceful commanders in the East India Company Marine.

A treasure ship, the Marie Galante, has been lost somewhere in the Amirantes; Kelso is ordered to locate the wreck and recover the quarter of a million pounds treasure. His mission, which was to have been secret, becomes common knowledge along the Bombay waterfront and beyond, so that when Paragon sails she finds La Mouette, captained by the notorious pirate Lamont, and gallivats of his Angrian allies in pursuit.

How Kelso finds the island, but not at first the treasure, how he meets Lamont's challenge, how he unmasks the renegade on his own ship makes an exciting story which is made more enthralling by a tender love affair between Kelso and Irina, his young Indian maid.