About the book: 2016 / The seventeenth century is the heyday of piracy. Sea robbers of all stripes and nationalities bravely attack trade caravans from the New World, carrying gold, sugar, cocoa and other riches to Europe. But European merchants do not sit idly by - sometimes they give robbers a fitting rebuff. However, the thirst for adventure and easy money uncontrollably attracts more and more daredevils to the tropical waters. This is how they met at sea crossroads - the young French aristocrat and slacker Michel de Grammont and the Russian student Timko Garmash, not suspecting where the insidious fate-villain would lead them and how will this all end…