GALLEON - A Novel by Pope, Dudley

London 1986, Alison Press, Secker & Warburg, UK First edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 6x9, VG/VG condition, 258 pages,.-----------------------------------------------------------3rd in the Ned Yorke nautical novel series, Yorke clashes with the new Royalist Governor of Jamaica and is forced to flee with his Brethren of the Coast, and campaigns against the Spanish. As England falls under a blanket of peace with the restoration of Charles II, in distant Jamaica all is not well. Though there is peace with Spain, there is No Peace Beyond the Line. It seems that the West Indies have become the private estate of the King of Spain. But Ned Yorke, Admiral of the Brethren, leader of the Buccaneers will not kowtow to the new Governor in Jamaica who is bent on weakening the Island's defences and destroying its currency. Ned Yorke and his Buccaneers must not remain idle. The third in a series set in the Caribbean, Dudley Pope reveals a masterful plot of subtle, seafaring lore wound around the tense excitement of adventure on the high seas.