When a customer asks him to photograph his wife en flagrant délire in a hotel room, security adviser Seán Ó Maoilriain expects to be able to pay the month's rent, but little does he expect to be enmeshed in a tale of corruption, prostitution, and murder, nor is prepared for a pair of shapely legs that send his head and his life into a spin.

1914, somewhere in the southwestern Pacific, Captain Rasputin’s sailing boat comes upon a man strapped to a raft adrift in the ocean: Corto Maltese. Corto and Rasputin are working for the Monk, the mysterious lord of the South Sea pirates — a man who carries a dark secret close to his heart. As England and Germany prepare for the Great War at sea, we’re drawn into an adventure and in a world inhabited by cannibals and battleships, heroes and traitors, friends and madmen, and by a beautiful young woman who would charm the most sea-hardened sailor on ‘The Banks of the Salt Seas’.

An historical novel set in the last fort held by the Gaeil in Ulster. In 1651, Eoghan Rua Ó Néill is dead and Cromwell's army has swept the country. In Ulster, a small band of Gaeil under Féilim Ó Néill stand alone. They fortify Mountcharles Fort against the English. Before long they are surrounded by the English and their artillery is trained against the Gaelic garrison.