Adam Penfeather

by Jeffery Farnol Book 1 in the Treasure & Vengeance series.

First published 1940

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Long before he becomes Martin Conisby’s hard-bitten ally, Adam Penfeather is driven into the violent Atlantic world by the unjust execution of his father. His struggle against Absalom Troy carries him through captivity, disguise and the brutal commerce of the Spanish Main, while Antonia—travelling in male disguise as his supposed half-brother—complicates a life increasingly governed by danger and revenge.

Published two decades after Black Bartlemy’s Treasure and Martin Conisby’s Vengeance, the novel functions as their story-order prequel. Farnol fills Penfeather’s youth with galleys, treasure ships, pirates and colonial violence, showing how the resourceful survivor of the later books acquired his distrust, seamanship and appetite for calculated risk. The adventure also broadens the cycle from one man’s vengeance into the harsher maritime world that created both its heroes and villains.