The new series from the bestselling historical fiction writer Tim Severin, starring his new hero Hector Lynch. The year is 1677. Seventeen-year-old Hector is snatched from an Irish village by Barbary corsairs and sold at auction on Algiers. Befriended by a fellow captive Dan, a Miskito Indian from the Caribbean, he finds himself in a bewildering world where life is cheap and only the quick-witted survive.