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Spring, 1648. When Thomas Hill, a bookseller surviving in rural Hampshire, publishes a political pamphlet, he has little notion of the difficulty that will observe. He is quickly arrested, obligated on a sail boat to Barbados and condemned alive as a slave to two of the island's most notoriously violent brothers. In England battle has erupted again, with London under threat of attack. When information of the king's execution reaches the island, political balance is threatened, and a fleet commanded by Sir George Ayscue happens to manage the island for Cromwell. The threat of violence raises. Thomas locates himself witness to abuse, poison, rape and savage brutality. Whenever a coded meaning from Ayscue to a sympathiser on the island is intercepted, Thomas is asked to decipher it. A disastrous battle seems inescapable. But nothing works out as planned. So that as the fatality toll mounts, the break free Thomas has been relying on seems a lot more unlikely....

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