The Odyssey of Captain Blood

Bachelor of Medicine Peter Blood, accused of treason for aiding an injured rebel in accordance with the Hippocratic oath, is sentenced to hard labor in the southern colonies of Great Britain. Six months later, after making a daring escape from the island of Barbados on a captured Spanish galleon, he begins a new life full of adventures and dangers as the captain of a pirate ship and soon becomes a legend of the coastal brotherhood and a terror of the Caribbean Sea. A noble rogue, driven by fate to become an outlaw, yet not losing his sense of good, honor, and justice - such is the main character of the captivating corsair odyssey by English writer Rafael Sabatini, which became the first book in the author's trilogy about the brave captain.