Ramage & the Saracens - Paperback

by Dudley Pope (Author)

Ramage and the Calypso are sent to Sicily to track down Barbary Coast pirates-the Saraceni-who are capturing slaves and terrorizing fishing villages along the coast. Ramage is ordered to track the pirates to their home and destroy them before they can devastate another Sicilian town-and in the process, he and his crew must attempt to rescue hundreds of Italian prisoners!

Author Biography

Dudley Pope, a naval defense correspondent of the London Evening News, progressed to writing carefully researched naval history. C.S. Forester urged Pope to try his hand at fiction and saw the younger writer as his literary heir. Pope began what was to become an impressive series with Ramage (1965) and, over the next 24 years, produced 17 more novels tracing Lord Ramage's career. Pope died in 1997.