Soldiers of Fortune #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue features multiple adventure stories. "Doctor of Piracy" chronicles Thomas Dover, a young Welsh medical student who abandons his practice to become a pirate, joining Captain Rogers on a three-year circumnavigation where he acquires a healthy share of the Acapulco treasure before returning to England to become a fashionable London doctor. "Lance Larson" depicts a master of disguise hired by Colonel Giraldo to impersonate Pedro Zorilla, a ruthless South American bandit, in order to infiltrate a prison camp in the Paraguay Penal Colony and prevent an escape plot that threatens democracy in the region.
James Bowie finds himself in a tense standoff aboard a Mississippi riverboat in 1829, where a desperate gambler is about to take his own life after losing his employer’s fortune. Bowie intervenes, offering to take the man’s place at the gambling table—only to uncover a cheating dealer, sparking a duel where Bowie must prove his deadly skill with a pistol.
Thomas Dover, a young medical student in 18th-century Cambridge, shocks his peers by declaring he’ll become a pirate after earning his degree—soon joining Captain Woodes Rogers’ crew for a globe-circling voyage of plunder, where he fights alongside the notorious buccaneers under the guise of a doctor.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie, a daring 19th-century fur trader and explorer, leads a perilous journey through the frozen wilderness of northwest Canada, driven by the dream of finding the Northwest Passage. Facing blizzards, treacherous rivers, and hostile tribes, he pushes his small crew forward with unwavering resolve, navigating uncharted terrain and enduring countless hardships in pursuit of his goal.
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