For My Great Folly — Thomas B. Costain

With the thunder of ships' guns and white-capped waves of the rolling seas, Thomas B. Costain weaves a colorful tapestry of suspense and adventure at the time of James I.

They were called the Free Rovers, these lusty English sea captains who roamed the seas. Chief among them was John Ward, who fought valiantly to keep sea lanes open to English ships--and kept for himself the Spanish booty he recovered from wayward galleons. Fighting by his side was young Roger Blease, who spurned the decadent court of James I for seagoing adventure, land-bound secret missions and romance. Together they blazed a heroic trail, never to be forgotten.