Treasure Map — Adam Hardy

BAYONETS FLASHED

Then his men were up with him, whooping and roaring in like devils.

He saw Halliwell wield a tomahawk and sink its blade into the skull of a black-moustached soldier. Joachim smashed his cutlass down and withdrew the reeking blade. Ferris was spitting mad, driving the panicky soldiers back, their bayonets clanking and clanging against the boarding pike. Barnabas heaved himself up with a Frenchman under each arm and banged their heads together. He always seemed to lose his cutlass.

The frenzied movements were like something out of a nightmare. Shrieks and screams split the air. Then the French were running. Grey carefully pushed his cutlass point-first into the ground, drew out his pistols, and with perfect aim pitched two of the fleeing men onto their faces before the whole blue-clad mass vanished into the night...

THIS IS THE FOURTH VOLUME IN A NEW SERIES OF NAVAL ADVENTURE NOVELS. FOX IS NOT, HOWEVER, THE NOBLE HERO OF TRADITIONAL FICTION. FOX IS A FIGHTING MAN WHO TRANSCENDS HEROISM -- HE DOESN'T CARE HOW HE WINS AS LONG AS HE WINS. HE'S MEAN, CUNNING AND MOST VICIOUS WHEN TRAPPED. THERE'S NO WAY TO OUTFOX FOX!