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The Bloody Black Flag

A Spider John Mystery

Steve Goble
  • 240 pp
  • ISBN 978-1-63388-359-8
  • Paperback • $15.95
  • September 2017

Also available in ebook format World Rights

1722—aboard a pirate ship off the American Colonial Coast.

Spider John Rush never wanted to be a pirate, but it had happened and he’d learned to survive in the world of cut and thrust, fight or die. He and his friend Ezra knew that death could come at any moment, from grapeshot or storm winds or the end of a noose. But when Ezra is murdered in cold blood by a shipmate, Spider vows revenge.

On a ship where every man is a killer many times over, how can Spider find the man who killed his friend? There is no law here, so if justice is to be done, he must do it. He will have to solve the crime and exact revenge himself.

One wrong step will lead to certain death, but Spider is determined to look into the dying eyes of the man who killed his friend, even if it means his own death.


Steve Goble is a journalist who works for the USA Today Network in Ohio. He edits news copy and helps manage website and print production, along with social media presence, for ten USA Today Network sites in Ohio. In addition, he writes a weekly craft beer column called “Brewologist,” which appears on these websites. This is his first novel.

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