 While coping with the aftermath of an outbreak of Yellow Fever in his crew, Lewrie conspires with an old friend (Kit Cashman, who he first encounters in 1782) to accept a dozen runaway slaves from Jamaica in his crew.In "Havoc's Sword", Lewrie and HMS "Proteus" are still in the Caribbean, where he gets to confront Choundas yet again and to cooperate with the rising US Navy.The same arena is still in play for "The Captain's Vengeance", where Lewrie embarks on a secret mission to the Spanish port of New Orleans to deal with French Acadian pirates... and finds that one of them is a very attractive and astonishingly liberated young woman.