Brewer's Revenge: 2

Commander William Brewer has an opportunity for to settle scores against his pirate adversary once and for all.Admiral Horatio Hornblower has given Commander Brewer captaincy of the captured pirate sloop El Dorado. Now under sail as the HMS Revenge its new name suits Brewers frame of mind for he lost many of his best men in a previous engagement. His new orders are to hunt down the pirates who have been ravaging the trade routes of the Caribbean sea.But Brewer will face more than one challenge before he can confront the pirate known as El Diabolito.His best friend and ships surgeon Dr. Spinelli is taking dangerous solace in alcohol as he wrestles with demons of his own; while the new purser Mr. Allen may need a lesson in honest accounting.Worst of all Hornblower has requested that Brewer take on a young neer-do-well Noah Simmons to remove him from a recent scandal at home. At twenty-three Simmons is old to be a junior midshipman and as a wealthy mans son he is unaccustomed to working taking orders or suffering privations.William Brewer will need to muster all his resources to ready his crew for their confrontation with the Caribbeans most notorious pirate. In the process hell discover the true price of command.