With the pirate's domain shrinking, Patrick Devlin and his crew are forced into the unfamiliar waters of Africa and the East Indies. But new ports bring new plunder and it's not long before they are on the trail of the infamous Fiery Cross of Goa. This most magnificent treasure is in the possession of Olivier 'The Buzzard' Levasseur, captain of the greatest pirate ship of the age. He belives himself unreachable, hidden on an island in the Indian Ocean. Devlin thinks otherwise.