“Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.”—William Gibson The remarkable Tim Powers—who ingeniously married the John Le Carrè spy novel to the otherworldly in his critically acclaimed —brings us pirate adventure with a dazzling difference. features Blackbeard, ghosts, voodoo, zombies, the fable Fountain of Youth…and more swashbuckling action than you could shake a cutlass at, as reluctant buccaneer John Shandy braves all manner of peril, natural and supernatural, to rescue his ensorcelled love. Nominated for the and World Fantasy Awards, is the book that inspired the motion picture —non-stop, breathtaking fiction from the genius imagination that conceived and .