CAPTAIN HAVOC, Ben Healey, UK pb 1977

This paperback is Ben Healey's novel 'CAPTAIN HAVOC' published by Methuen Books in the UK in 1977.   Book is in reasonable condition, (see picture).  217 pages. Picture is of actual book.

SYNOPSIS: Wrongly convicted of witchcraft and condemned to a living death on a slave galley, the mysterious Englishman called Sir John Havoc could present no further threat to his powerful enemies at the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King.  But out of nowhere come his rescuers - a haughty Knight of Malta, an Arab magician neither man nor woman, and a beautiful and seductive Hungarian princess.  Then, from the scented harems and pirate-infested coast of North Africa, through the turbulence of plague-stricken Italy begins a thrilling chase in a desperate bid to preserve a 300-year-old secret from the powers of evil...