Rafael Sabatini · 1915 · sea

Betrayed by his half-brother and sold to the galleys, the Cornish gentleman Sir Oliver Tressilian survives to become Sakr-el-Bahr, the most dreaded corsair of Algiers; as the Sea Hawk he sails back to Cornwall to carry off the woman who forsook him and the brother who wronged him.

1. 1
   Penarrow

   Sir Oliver's Cornish home, where he is treacherously seized by his brother Lionel and handed to a slaver.

2. 2
   Algiers

   The corsair city where Oliver, taken captive and renamed Sakr-el-Bahr, rises to be its most formidable sea captain.

3. 3
   Penarrow

   Cornwall again, where the Sea Hawk descends by night to seize Rosamund and Lionel and bear them off to Barbary.

4. 4
   Algiers

   Algiers once more, where the long reckoning between Oliver, his betrayers, and the Basha Asad is finally resolved.