As the siblings find their destinies converging once more, they realise that the vengeance and redemption they both desperately seek could cost them their lives . . . Verity read the expression on his face. She rose. ‘I should see that Constance is alright. I hope she has not been disturbed by all the commotions and Theo’s foolishness this evening.’

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Cal returned for supper, as he had promised. He stared at his plate, made no conversation, and retired to bed early. Aidan followed. Shortly afterwards, Theo and Abigail extinguished the candles and went to their bedroom. a b "Passion and piracy with Wilbur Smith". HeraldScotland. 14 July 2012 . Retrieved 25 November 2017. I cannot believe they do not defend it better,’ whispered Cal. ‘That fool of a governor has underestimated us again,’ said Sam. ‘We will make him pay for his mistake.’

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If you will not think of me, at least think of your grandfather. Will you break an old man’s heart to go off on some foolish adventure?’ He stared at Rob, ready to gut him in an instant. With his skin tanned as brown as a walnut, dripping wet, smeared with shark’s blood and naked as Adam, Rob looked like some kind of hideous sea sprite. Cal nodded. It was not hard to feign sympathy. He only had to repeat the things he had heard his father say. Guy Courtney, Verity’s father, had been a monster, who beat his daughter savagely and abused her for his own purposes. Later, he had tried to kill the whole Courtney family. When he held a knife to Mansur’s baby cousin Jim’s throat, Mansur’s Aunt Sarah had shot him dead.

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But on the other side of the Atlantic, unbeknownst to Rob, his distant cousins Cal and Aidan Courtney are leading a campaign against the British in a quest for American Independence. When Aidan is killed in a fierce battle with British troops, Cal vows he will not rest until he has avenged his brother's death, by driving the British out of America - by whatever means necessary . . . The Dark of the Sun (1965), filmed as The Mercenaries (1968) starring Rod Taylor, Jim Brown and Yvette Mimieux

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He is a growing young man, with a young man’s desires,’ Mansur reflected. ‘It is natural he should want to see such things.’ There was nothing Rob could say. He watched the pinnace row out to the Dunstanburgh Castle, the topmen running along the yards to loosen the sails. He imagined how the world would look from that height, balanced on a thin spar with nothing except a hundred feet of air between him and the ocean. The crew fitted the spokes to the capstan and began hauling up the anchor. As the ship prepared for departure, it seemed as if his whole future was about to sail away. I have seen how you look at me.’ George tapped his wooden leg. ‘Your father the cripple, the stay-at-home. Could not hold a candle to the great Jim Courtney.’