The Revenge of Tom Dollar

About the Book

Tom Dollar, black, handsome and brave. The son of a Royal Navy Captain and a beautiful American slave, in the summer of 1860 Tom Dollar is jailed for murder on the fortress Rock of Gibraltar. He claims he was provoked by a slave-owner and acted in self defense. His beautiful girl friend of Irish and Portuguese descent vows to obtain his freedom from the formidable Moorish prison. In this rollicking tale Reg Reynolds takes you around the world to the plantations of South Carolina, the docks of Liverpool, the naval yards of London, the brothels of South America and the slave camps of Africa. Shipwrecks, murder, romance all feature in this page-turning saga of high adventure.

About the Author

Reg Reynolds was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The Revenge of Tom Dollar is his first novel but he has had published six non-fiction works including three books on the history of Gibraltar. Reg was a reporter for the Victoria Daily Colonist from 1973 to 1981 and later worked in Portugal, Spain and Gibraltar for Discover Magazines. He has been researching and writing about the history of Gibraltar since 1986 and his been writing for Gibraltar Magazine since 1995. He divides his time between Victoria, London, Gibraltar and Portimão in Portugal's Algarve province.