WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BEN KANE Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman, is blessed with "youth, wealth, and good digestion". He is betrayed by his half-brother and becomes a renegade and Barbary corsair winning the title of Sakr-el-Bahr - hawk of the sea. This is the thrilling, full-blooded adventure of how a man wronged became the scourge of the Mediterranean and the terror of Christians.