Eli Brown · 2013 · sea
Eli Brown's 2013 swashbuckler. In 1819 the celebrated chef Owen Wedgwood is kidnapped by the notorious pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot and told he will live only as long as he cooks her a gourmet supper every Sunday. Aboard the Flying Rose he is swept across the oceans, from the English coast to the South China Sea, as Mabbot hunts the elusive Brass Fox and wages her private war on the opium trade.
- 1The English Coast
Off the south coast of England, the chef Wedgwood is rowed aboard Captain Mabbot's ship, the Flying Rose.
- 2West Africa
South down the Atlantic past the coast of West Africa.
- 3The Cape of Good Hope
Around the stormy Cape and into the Indian Ocean.
- 4India
To the coast of India, the source of the opium that drives the trade.
- 5The Sunda Strait
Through the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java into the eastern seas.
- 6Macau
And north to Macau and the China coast, where the hunt for the Brass Fox comes to its reckoning.