An adventure novel that tells the story of the turbulent life of Captain Crispin Barbican. The lieutenant of Henry Morgan himself, the menace of the Spaniards, has come a long way from a galley rower to the captain of a pirate ship. His life had everything - childhood in a Puritan family, slavery on the sugar plantations of Barbados and Spanish galleys, as well as stormy sea battles, mountains of gold and seas of blood. There was only no peace and stability. But having given the last battle, the price of victory in which was the hand of the beautiful Frances, he will find peace and love.