Atherton Hawke

The book Atherton Hawke is awash with historical facts and details. It tells the story of an English privateer knighted by King Charles I for service in the English Navy his time as a privateer and his struggle to establish a life in New England with his mixed race female companion Lolly Jones during the early 1600's. A volatile series of events touches off a war between Atherton Hawke and the Plymouth settlement. The lifetime bond between Hawke and his companion is malevolently tested when she is kidnapped and sold to a slaver whose ship is bound for Jamaica. Threaded throughout with love sacrifice and justice the narrative in Atherton Hawke remains true to the time and divulges a brutality often overlooked in British and American history.