For My Great Folly Author:Thomas B. Costain A romantic adventure novel built around the sea-rover, John Ward, hero of the Spanish wars, during the reign of the dour King James I. This was no age of chivalry, but a sordid, noisome world of underworld life, where crime and vice flourished under gangster rule, while a strange king played politics with the Spaniards and signed away Engl... more »and's rights. Only the freebooters in the Mediterranean upheld the honor of the nation on the seas -- and one by one they were betrayed and hung as pirates. John Ward was their leader....« less