Llewellyn Powell knows the slave trade, and knows it from the inside. Now he wants to take it down... as a pirate. Llewellyn's father died in a logging accident in the great forests of Wales when Llewellyn was but a lad. Shortly after, Llewellyn ran off in hopes of sending some money back to his impoverished mother. Thinking he would find adventure and fortune he went to sea; what he found was rough and cynical company. It toughened him: he was determined to be a survivor, and he was. In fact he began to rise through the ranks until at a remarkably young age he found himself a ship's captain....