By Force of Circumstance

Author(s): J G Harlond

Location(s): Lisbon

Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

Era(s): 17th Century (English Civil War)

“For sale: the English Crown Jewels”
Ludo da Portovenere returns to his former piratical ways when the Queen of England commissions him to sell priceless gems to raise money for the Royalist cause during the Civil War. But will Ludo keep, or sell on the English Crown Jewels? There are many who would like to prevent him from doing either. Ludo intends to make a huge profit, mostly for himself, but these plans are set awry when Alina, Baroness Metherall, becomes involved. Meanwhile, young Plymouth merchant Marcos Almond, is charged with acquiring the jewels to prevent them being sold at all. What none of them know is that the evil-minded secret agent Rogelio, pursuing a personal vendetta against Ludo, has been commissioned to acquire the very same jewels by the Vatican. Events move into perilous territory as it comes time for old scores to be settled, one way or the other.

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