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Damnation Kane: Irish pirate captain, born in 1650 to an English Puritan and an Irish druidess. Through means mystical and mysterious, somehow Damnation finds himself, with his ship The Grace of Ireland and his crew of scalawags, in strange seas. His ship damaged by battle and by storm’s fury, Captain Kane and his men seek a safe harbor; in the process they make dangerous new enemies, and tensions among the crew worsen. Because they do not know where they are, nor how they came to be there. Is it Hell? An undiscovered country? The land of the Fae?
No: it is Florida. In the year 2011.
This is the first volume of the Adventures; here the reader will find action and adventure, blood and death, love and romance, piracy and larceny and mutiny and betrayal and loyalty and subterfuge and everything else that makes up the life of an Irish pirate three and a half centuries after his birth. Come along and enjoy this mix of old and new, fantasy and history: pirates in the modern world.
The second volume of the Adventures of Damnation Kane picks up where the first volume left off: Damnation was wounded in a battle between the Grace of Ireland and Captain Nicholas Hobbes’s Sea-Cat. The crew deliver their captain, and the other wounded sailors, to a hospital, and then take the ship to safety.
And for the next several months, Damnation does not see his ship.
Up and down the East Coast he travels, from Charleston to New York City, all the way to Bermuda, in pursuit of his beloved Grace. By foot, by car, by horse-drawn wagon, even by air, Damnation chases the one thing that matters most. Along with his ship and crew, Captain Kane loses his way, his hope, his mind, and more than one fight — though he wins some of that back again. Finally, through storm and chaos, through blood and lies and sheer determination, Damnation finds his ship once more.
And then he loses everything.
Who is Damnation Kane?
He is an Irishman. A pirate. Captain of the ship The Grace of Ireland. That is what he was: but is he still? Born in 1650, trapped in 2011: is he still the same man he was? Can you claim a country that is three centuries gone in the past, that has changed entirely in that time? Are you an Irishman if you don’t know the flag, or the culture, or when St. Patrick’s Day is?
Are you a pirate if you don’t sail, don’t plunder, don’t say Yarrrrr?
Are you the captain of a ship which you have left behind? Are you still captain after you relinquish command? What if your crew are still loyal to you?
All of these questions become a part of Damnation Kane’s struggles. And still more: questions of love, and honor, and duty, and destiny, occupy his mind and heart, and take over his life. Still, the biggest question that Damnation must deal with is that first question, the most important question for any of us: who are we?
Who is Damnation Kane?
Some of these questions will be resolved in this, the third and final volume of The Adventures of Damnation Kane. Other questions and conundrums, too, find their answers – or at least some form of conclusion – in these pages. Also in this book, apart from questions and conundrums, you will find pirates and sailing ships, criminals and police, beast-cycles and beast-wagons, beer and sandwiches, kindness and cruelty, violence and mayhem, love and despair, revenge and redemption, death and magic.
But some questions have no answers. And some tales, while they end, do not reach a satisfactory denouement. Some adventures never stop. To know if this tale of adventure is one of those, you’ll need to read to the last word – which may or may not be the end.
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