Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise new book The Pirate King,

The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery in the birth of the golden age of piracy.

Avery's gone. He's disappeared. It's now 1696 in an inn called the World's End.

And in that in at that day is a man contemplating his own fate.

His name is Foe, but he takes on the name Defoe because it sounds more princely. He's always in trouble, he's always in debt,

he's always come up with new schemes, he was born well and he lost it in a big gamble of sailing from one side of the world to the other and he needs

the way out and the way out of course is that he's made friends with the reigning monarch, King William, who came over in the glorious revolution.

Rexa, come to you at this moment because you meet foe, you introduce foe who becomes defo.

And you're a measure of him as a, not just as a novelist,

we know Ms Robinson Crow, as a merchantman.

Is this representative of the time you

gambled and you won bigger you lost? Thanks Rex.

Um, well, I mean he was, he was the subject of discussions, he was the, he was the,

of discussions, he was the, he was the, he was the, he was part of the swashbuckling life that was,

that characterized his type.

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