Synopses & Reviews
A riveting and action-packed novel of the life and times of Henry Morgan, MAD MORGAN is the legendary pirate's story told with swashbuckling romance, derring-do, and an edge as sharp as Spanish steel.
Born in the Welsh countryside in 1655, Henry Morgan is captured as a youth by Spanish raiders and carried off to Santiago de Cuba to a life of cruel servitude. Grown to manhood and unbowed by the slaver's whip, Morgan eventually escapes, stealing a prison ship and rescuing a crew of hardened freebooters in the process. With vengeance in his heart, Morgan sets out to harry the Dons. Before long, the turquoise waters of the Spanish Main run red with blood. No Spanish treasure ship or guarded port is safe--he is Captain Henry Morgan, "El Tigre de Caribe", the most feared buccaneer alive and an imposing figure of dread throughout the Caribbean.
In a rousing adventure that culminates in Morgan's infamous and bloody conquest of the supposedly impregnable Spanish port of Panama City, Mad Morgan unfolds at a breathtaking pace. Rich with stunning detail, violence, passion and revenge this is a pirate tale that will captivate every armchair adventurer until the last, thrilling page is turned.
Review
"Swashbuckling adventure."--
Indianapolis Star"Awash with treachery and romance, this well-spun yarn fairly crackles with danger and suspense...Colorful, old-fashioned adventure. Vigorous historical fiction."--Booklist
Synopsis
IN SANTIAGO DE CUBA, THEY TRIED TO BREAK HIS SPIRIT.
IN PANAMA THEY TRIED TO KILL HIM.
IN BETWEEN, HE MADE THEM PAY-IN BLOOD...
He came out of Cuba's bloody sugar cane fields, a young Welshman who had been kidnapped from his home and forced into barbaric slavery in the New World. Then on a black night, Henry Morgan made his escape, and soon was commanding a former prison bark manned by criminals, misfits and adventurers--men who owed Mad Morgan their freedom, their loyalty, and their lives. Driven by his hatred of the Spanish crown and all who bowed before it, Morgan rampaged and plundered across the bounding Spanish Main, earning the name "el Tigre de Caribe, "Tiger of the Caribbean."
But for Morgan and his merry men everything changed when the pirate set eyes on a beautiful woman-betrothed to the man determined to hunt Mad Morgan down...
Mad Morgan is Kerry Newcomb's rollicking, action-packed tale of a seafaring outlaw, the war he waged, and the legend he forged-a tale as bracing as the sea's lashing spray and as riveting as a flashing brigand's blade...
About the Author
Kerry Newcomb was born in Milford, Connecticut but had the good fortune to be raised in Texas. He has served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and taught at the St. Labre Mission School on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. Mr. Newcomb has written plays, film scripts, commercials, liturgical dramas and over thirty novels under both his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, including
The Red Ripper and the
Texas Anthem series. He lives with his family in Ft.Worth, Texas.