Captain Rebel — Frank Yerby

HE LIVED BY HIS OWN LAWS!

Women loved him. The Yankees feared him. His men worshipped him. Captain Ty Meredith refused to fight for the Confederacy as a soldier. But his ran the Union blockages to bring guns and food and medicine. With icy courage, he took his slim, fast, mist-colored ships under the guns of the Yankee fleet, carrying medicines and guns for the Confederacy.

His goal was gold, not glory. He had a fortune in bullion in England, a lovely woman in every port he touched. But the only woman he had ever loved belonged to another man. A rebel all his life, he was cashiered out of Annapolis for girl trouble. He scorned the church in which his own brother was a preacher. He refused the love of beautiful Lauriel Doumier on the grounds of honor. But he made his best friend's wife his mistress.

Those who feared him called him Captain Rebel. But then in his blackest hour he proved himself a hero.