this is part of a series of 4 books Bucaneer, Galleon, Corsair and Admiral by Dudley Pope (who also wrote the Ramage series of adventures based in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars) about the adventures of the fictitious Ned Yorke and his crew of bucaneers based in the Caribbean. Set at the time of the Restoration of King Charles II and the wars against Spain and the Spanish Main. a good book with the added interest of being set in a period of history not often written about. Thoroughly recommended.