
But unlike all those earlier hard-fought, hard-won battles, something inside him-a premonition, perhaps? Or maybe simple intuition?-told him this day there would be no escaping the watery jaws that waited to swallow his beloved ship and the 224 souls aboard her like a giant blue whale gulping down a gullet full of krill. The seas…the wildly capricious seas had turned against him just as they had done many times before. The words rang through Captain Bartolome Vargas’s mind with the ominous clarity of a death knell. This one’s for you!Īs the son of a son of a sailor, I went out on the sea for adventure… To all the fans who have followed me through each adventure in every story, who have encouraged me to keep writing, and who have cheered me on since the first sentence of the first book I ever published. Published by Sourcebooks Casablanca an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author. The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious and are used fictitiously. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems-except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews-without permission in writing from its publisher, Sourcebooks, Inc. Sourcebooks and the colophon are registered trademarks of Sourcebooks, Inc.Īll rights reserved. Sign up now for VIP savings, bonus content, early access to new ideas we're developing, and sneak peeks at our hottest titles!Ĭover and internal design © 2015 by Sourcebooks, Inc.Ĭover designed by Dawn Adams/ Sourcebooks, Inc. We would love to invite you to receive exclusive rewards.
