Indoctrinated into a pirate cabal notorious on the high seas, a conniving outlaw indebted with a magic talisman struggles for his life against sea raiders...locked in ship-to-ship battles against Arnin, Prince of northern Bindar. He and his two battle-hardened comrades must use every trick to survive and fight hand-in-hand in one of the fiercest ship-to-ship battles the coast has ever seen...