More Historical Fiction

Mr. Hoyt is presently completing another action/adventure novel entitled John Silver – Pirate. A prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, this next novel will be published next year. The story spools out the events and motives that transformed Silver from professor of navigation and astronomy at a British Naval college into a Caribbean pirate. It answers the question why Silver and his fellows left a fortune in gold on a desert island in the first place. The story ends where Treasure Island begins: with the treasure map recovered from Billy Bones’ sea chest after he died of rum poisoning at the Admiral Benbow Inn. Young Jim Hawkins and Squire Trelawney journey up the coast to Bristol and the Spyglass Inn, where they recruit seamen to take them to Skeleton Island (which Silver and his comrades recently left.)