The Red Eagle (English Edition)

Stanislaw Andriuskevicius a disgraced member of the noble Andruszkiewicz family of Poland forced to change the spelling of his last name from Polish to Lithuanian for his part in the Radziwill Rebellion. The Radziwill Rebellion sided with the King of Sweden’s invasion against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Radziwill intended to become the new king of Poland. When his forces were defeated Stanislaw was and several other of his family were in the battle of Tykocin Castle. He was the only member to survive and the family loyal to the crown could not kill another of their own family. So, they exiled him from the family and ordered his name to be changed. This order was placed in every church and cathedral in the Commonwealth. Everyone learned of his betrayal. This left Stanislaw with few prospects and no friends found himself offering his services as a commander to the Duke of Courland. This will lead him to eventually become captain of a Courland man of war ship. War and circumstance finds him and his crew without support and they take a drastic course to survive. Stanis, as he will be known become one of the craftiest pirates of the open sea. Join him in his exploits at sea and in the bed chamber of his lady love the Lady Yaw. Together they fight and plunder their way to glory, revenge and redemption. The infamous pirate Lukas Matejko, whose violent and perverse measures leads him to become their arch enemy. This is a pirate tale of adventures in love, revenge, justice, sea battles, in the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas. Meet famous persons from the past such as Henry Morgan, François l’Ollonais, Edward Collier, Pierre Le Picard, and Anne Dieu-Le-Veut (Annie) come to life with fierce passions and convictions. Go back in time to life that only the desperate and forgotten dared to live.