The second volume of the collected works of R. Sabatini includes the novels “The Sea Hawk” and “The King’s Favorite”, the main characters of which have real historical prototypes. There really was at one time a Cornish gentleman, Sir Oliver Tresillian, aka Saqr al-Bahr, which in Arabic means “Sea Hawk,” a Berber corsair, a renegade who almost became Pasha of Algiers, whose life full of incredible adventures and love for the beautiful Rosamund formed the basis for the novel The Sea Hawk. The novel “The King's Favorite,” as the title suggests, tells about the favorite Robert Carr, who received the titles of Viscount Rochester and Earl of Somerset from the English King James I, his dizzying career at court and the tragic history of his relationship with Lady Essex.