Black Bartlemy’s Treasure

by Jeffery Farnol Book 2 in the Treasure & Vengeance series.

First published 1920

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Martin Conisby, Lord Wendover, escapes after five years chained to a Spanish galley and returns to England consumed by hatred for Richard Brandon, the man he blames for his ruin and his father’s death. Disguised and hardened by slavery, Martin encounters Brandon’s daughter Joan and the formidable sailor Adam Penfeather. The legend of the pirate Black Bartlemy and a buried treasure soon draws them aboard the Faithful Friend and away from England.

The voyage transforms a private vendetta into a maritime survival story of pirates, storms, shipboard intrigue and an isolated island. Martin’s determination to punish the Brandon family is repeatedly complicated by loyalty and love, forcing him to choose between the identity built by suffering and the possibility of a different future. The story continues directly in Martin Conisby’s Vengeance.