In 1670 Henry Morgan sacked the city of Panama with an army of 2500 pirates, buccaneers and adventurers. This is the story of one of them... Orphaned young by Spaniards who raid his Caribbean island home, Dirk van Cortlandt enters piracy-the Sweet Trade-to seek revenge. His ambitious violence wins him a captaincy, but with that power come responsibilities, and he must accept that to be a man he must have more than size, strength and skill with a cutlass. Then, for the sake of a girl he hopes to marry, he joins Morgan's raid on Panama. The voyage, meant to be Dirk's last, endangers his ship, his friends and beloved, and brings him face to face with the personal weakness that may prove fatal to them all.
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