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Eddie Cantrell, now committed to the king of Denmark's princess, is sent by Admiral Simpson to the Caribbean to secure usage of the most valuable commodity on that continent - not the gold and silver that your Spanish treasure, but the petrol which up-time machines and industry need. The admiral has also provided Eddie's small process power with the new steam-powered frigates that contain just emerge from the navy's shipyards. Even with the frigates, a huge obstacle stands in his way: the Gulf-girdling Spanish existence in the brand new World. So a diversion is necessary, carried out by an up-time car mechanic and a down-time mercenary colonel who also happens to be the previous earl of Ireland. Their mission: get the oil domains on Trinidad, and so distract the interest of Spain's " NEW WORLD " governors. While the Spanish galleons and soldiers mind for Trinidad, Commander Cantrell's smallest and most effective steam sloop will make a run to the Louisiana shoreline. There, her crew will wind flow their way in the bayous to the real New World reward: the Jennings Petrol Field. But Cantrell's strategies could be wrecked in a variety of ways. He encounters often-hostile natives, rambunctious Dutch dispatch captains, allied colonies on the brink of hunger, and vicious social infighting that can hardly be comprised by his in a position and keen new wife. If the galleons finally turn out in force to engage his small flotilla, Eddie will quickly realize that the Spanish aren't the only enemies who will be coming against him in a fateful Caribbean show-down.
