Predator birds. Smith U.

The second half of the XVII century, the golden age of piracy. England and Holland are waging a war for naval rule, and in war all means are good. The English captain Sir Francis Courtney was given the royal permission to pursue, and simply to rob the enemy merchant vessels. Together with his seventeen -year -old son Hal, he patrols the waters off the coast of South Africa. The Courtney Courtelee Caurall hunts for the Dutch galleon, coming from East Indies and loaded with gold, precious spices and rare wood. A similar trophy can bring a whole state! And the galleon was taken on boarding, but the pirate happiness is fleeting - soon Sir Francis and Hal fall into the hands of ruthless enemies...

the novel “Predatory Birds” chronologically opens the epic about the indomitable Courtney, whose motto reads the motto: "I can stand it."