Lieutenant Jacob Starke and the Spanish Gunboats

The third novel in the Starke series finds Calypso disrupting Junta filibuster expeditions from Bermuda to the Mexican coast; while the Democratic administration and its Republican successor struggle to avoid entanglement in a stalemated war bleeding out Spain and Cuba. Men, arms, and supplies entering the island from the United States feed growing resentment in Spain and among Cuban loyalists while deteriorating conditions in Cuba sway an American public against Spanish rule. With Europe d...