Red Jack's Pirate Adventures 3
- The Depth of Danish Delights
- The Widow and Eternal Lies
- Scandal on the Seven Seas
Red Jack Campbell has found a way to plunder sunken Spanish treasure—but first he needs a Danish beauty and her extraordinary diving suit.
Jack and his companions must steal a list of sunken Spanish ships from under the noses of colonial officials—and outwit a Spanish warship determined to board them.
La Fortaleza sits slightly apart, elevated just enough to remind everyone who rules. Its walls are thick but softened by age, pale stone catching the sun. From the outside it looks calm, almost domestic. Inside is order and quiet authority. Courtyards. Shade. The scrape of quills and murmured councils. This is where decisions are announced, not argued. The governor does not want noise drifting up from below, and he rarely goes down there himself.
Penelope enters the area through streets that narrow as they rise, stone underfoot polished smooth by boots and rain. The smell shifts here from less market spice to more iron, tallow, damp paper, and old sweat. She heads for the Real Aduana—the Customs office.
Jack’s reasoning was simple: wrecks are money and in the Spanish world money lives at the Aduana. Ships are not merely naval assets; they are fiscal events and tax liabilities.
READ MOREWatching Penelope’s and Liz’s derrieres in their dresses leave the Bully Hayes, he wished them well. Penelope chose well: merchant’s dresses. Simple enough not to show riches but distinguished enough for any man to pay attention to their status.
And that is exactly what the Aduana official does. He sits up straight, a bit straighter when he hears Penelope’s Castilian.
In her duty to create Penelope Byng in the image of a perfect British lady, Mrs. Haversham required French and Castilian lessons. She emphasized that Spanish is what the uneducated call the language from Spain.
COLLAPSELily Chen on Goodreads wrote:I didn’t know there was a Danish settlement in the 18th century Caribbean but, of course, J. Tiffany Noore does, and ties it to another pirate romp. A cute Danish craftswoman Anna Saknussemm built a diving suit and Jack wants it. It was stolen by the Spanish. So now, Jack needs to find his way into a fortress while Liz and Penelope infiltrate a heavily guarded Spanish customs offices to get a list of sunken treasure ships. And to help deal with a Spanish captain who doesn’t like Jack’s ship lingering too long outside the fortress, Jack finds a seaweed monster. Read it.
From Liz’s impatience to Penelope’s knowing smiles to Anna’s adorable blushes, J. Tiffany Noore lets every woman in The Depth of Danish Delights shine. Add a Danish craftswoman, her diving barrel-suit and ghillie suit, a break-in to steal Spanish records, sunken galleons, and fortress-wall climbing, and you’ve got a neat little pirate heist with a sea-monster surprise. The Red Jack stories are too short. I wish Noore would make them much, much longer.