THE DEVIL'S ADMIRAL (Annotated)

The Devil's Admiral is a vigorous sea-adventure romance set amid the treacherous commercial and colonial waterways of the Far East, where questions of loyalty, greed, and survival unfold under the shadow of piracy and illicit trade. Moore writes in a brisk, reportorial style enlivened by nautical vocabulary, sudden reversals, and melodramatic intensity; the novel belongs to the Edwardian tradition...