Clancy Redbeard, the ne'er-do-well son of a Virginia pirate, resists Benjamin Franklin and George Washington's pleas to join their fight against the British, but gets swept up in the American Revolution when he becomes the consort of an abolitionist pirate, Captain Death. Fans of Patrick O'Brian's "Aubrey-Maturin" series, Jane Austen, George MacDonald Fraser's "Flashman," and the humor of Douglas Adams will enjoy this unconventional tale of two pirates battling George the Third, mid-life crises, and each other, told with Jurgen Vsych's inimitable wit and beautifully designed with 60 rare illustrations from the vaults of the world's finest art and maritime museums."