I received a copy of this book gratis from the Goodread's Giveaway program.

This book is very well written. Dietrich has a writing style that makes reading easy and the pages just fly. My only criticism is that I really don't like the main character, Ethan Gage, that much. I think most people would relate well to Gage but I find him too breezy. His cavalier attitude towards danger rubs me the wrong way. But that aside, Gage's ability to keep digging himself further into trouble makes for a great plot. In this book he's nearly killed while flying down a cliff from an icebound prison---and keep in mind this is in 1803---and things only go downhill, pun intended, from there.

Gage's ability to pick himself up and carry on is great to watch. In this book things have changed somewhat from earlier books because now Gage is married with a child. His internal worries about his family make up some of the backdrop of this installment in the series.

William Dietrich is a historian as well as a journalist. This background is illustrated in the painless way that Dietrich relays a lot of Caribbean history during the course of this book.