"M-hm." If it was a pirate or a slaver, he was doing just what he needed to: trying to draw them into shallow water.
"They make her three miles, sir, northwest."īliven paused to enjoy the morning sun streaming in the stern windows.
"Sir"-Ross scooted aside a chart of the southern coast of Cuba that lay on the great mahogany table and set the wooden tray in its place-"the lookout sighted a sail just a moment ago. He bore a wooden tray with water, coffee, and a covered plate.īliven rubbed his eyes, rose stiffly from his berth, and entered his sea cabin. Ross." His steward was a short man, of gracile build, with very wavy ash-blond hair, slightly dish-faced but not unpleasantly so, and with hazel eyes beneath woolly brows so heavy that they seemed always knit in worry. He had slept soundly, the sea swell directly astern of them, powerful, gentle, rhythmic, and as he had fallen asleep it seemed to propel him forward into his dreams. "Enter!" His voice was hoarse, and he coughed out a small clot of phlegm into the handkerchief that stayed by his pillow. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īliven's eyes snapped open at the first rap on his cabin door, the first of three-always three-and he knew it was his steward. Inspried by the real-life Olowalu Massacre and the famed Congregationalist missoin of 1819, this third outing will be unlike any adventure the Putnams have faced before. On their respective paths, the Putnams encounter a new breed of pirate and meet an unexpected force of nature: Kahumanu, the formidable queen of the Hawaiian Islands. If she can't keep Putnam with her, then she'll just have to go with him.Īs Putnam sets sail for his new home port in Honolulu, Clarity joins a new missionary effort from Boston to Hawaii. But with this new tour of duty to last more than two years, his patient wife, Clarity, unwilling to accept such a brief time together, at last puts her foot down.
Bliven Putnam, now Captain of the sloop of war Rappahannock, has come into his own as a leader and is ordered to the Pacific. Haley's gripping naval saga.įollowing the naval victories of the War of 1812 and the Second Barbary War, the United States is finally expanding its navy to take a place of prominence in world affairs. Captain Bliven Putnam returns, venturing into the Pacific to fight pirates in Malaya and match wits with the royals in Hawaii, in this next installment of award-winner James L.
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