Eye on the Prize Author:Alan Black Kar and his crew were on the last leg of a very profitable voyage aboard The Prize. The winds had been favorable all the way from Tyre and northward across the Black Sea. The cargo holds were stuffed with goods from the Byzantine Empire and the Far East trade routes. Kar was pleased that The Prize's passenger was a lady bound for a highly politi... more »cal marriage that might tilt the balance of power in the eighth century. He expected smooth sailing all the way to Sarkel at the heart of the Khazar Empire. What he did not expect was mutiny, murder, and theft. Men he thought had been loyal, took his ship, stole his cargo, kidnapped the lady and tossed him and his loyal crew into the sea to drown or swim. Kar would not have been the Captain of The Prize if he let his ship and cargo go so easily. He would track it and the men who stole it, whether it was to Greece or all the way to Rome. But first, he had to contend with the lady's most irritating maid and a trek across some very inhospitable territory, a trek they all might not survive.« less