Publisher's Synopsis
The year is 1717. With the undoing of the Republic of Pirates in the Bahamas, Samuel Bellamy-the "Robin Hood of the Seas"-and other leaders of the Jacobite Revolution fight to keep the twelve Ancient Objects out of the hands of the powerful Ravenskalds and demonic Mammon Lodge. Angus "Quill" MacGregor (nephew of Rob Roy), still thought by those in the Highlands to be dead, deepens his alliance with Edward Thache-soon to be known as Blackbeard-and a mad gentleman pirate named Stede Bonnet as the Royal Navy and English slave traders intensify their efforts to rid the world of the hostis humani generis forever.
Based on the author's long-running stage show, The Cannon and the Quill is part of the ongoing Stanton Chronicles.
The Stanton Chronicles combines extensive historical research with mystery and the paranormal to weave a fact-based fantasy of Global Empire and the multinational corporations and secret organizations that have ruled it from time immemorial. Praise for The Cannon and the Quill "The Cannon and the Quill delivers on all the promises it makes at the start. Its short, punchy chapters move easily between plotlines. The stories and characters are superior-no doubt the result of considerable research." "What an adventure! It begins like a Robert E. Howard novel and never slows down! Great mix of history, mystery, and the paranormal." "It is like Marathon Man, with all of the independent stories set in foreign countries, then weaving the separate strands together."
