Soon the dissonance between the goals of the Captain and the crew begin to form a growing wedge between them, as a series of disastrous incidents convinces the superstitious men that a curse has been placed on their voyage. Maurice, the ship's quartermaster, desperately tries to maintain the balance between the Captain's sentimental zeal and the crew's mutinous dissatisfaction before they find themselves literally and figuratively sunk.
The influence of my recent visit to St. Augustine, that great ancient city of pirate activity, colors this and my other latest novel, The Bartender. The mysterious state of Florida also rears its head in another work in progress, a horror novel about a boxer in the 1940s, entitled The Alternation of Night and Day.