The Dark Pirate

<p> <b><i>Red At Dawn</b></i> quickly captures its readers wrapping them in the ago-old dramas of intense greed cruelty rape murder and bitter-sweet romance. David K. Evans crafts a tight plot with vivid glimpses of the turbulent 1700s; a time when the Caribbean island of Roatán was the rendezvous for “Brethren of the Coast” - lusty hard-living pirates of the Western Caribbean. </p><p>Seen through the eyes of Peter Halsey a young New England skipper of a fishing schooner captured by maniacal pirate Captain Ned Lukas the tale swiftly unfolds onboard the aging brigantine Rebeckah with ports-of-call and vivid drama that include the Slave Coast of West Africa; mid-ocean capture of a venerable Spanish Galleon; a slave market on the Spanish coast of Central America and onward to the beautiful “deserted” shores of Roatán.</p><p>Drawing upon his knowledge from over four decades of research on the island the author paints a vivid and exciting portrait of life among elusive maroons and castaways of the 1700s largely gone unrecorded by History; describing their desperate attempt to survive and protect their women and freedom from vicious attacks by pirates who periodically invade the small island. It is here story soars. </p>