John. Starting as a page of the Grand Master, Gervaise quickly attains knighthood and defends Europe and Christendom against the anarchy of piracy in the Mediterranean at that time and the expansion of the Turkish empire. Sir Tresham is there to defend the fortress at Rhodes during the first siege of that city by Soleiman.

    This book includes four novellas:Slain by the Doones,Frida;or, the Lover's Leap,George Bowring,Crocker's Hole