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 Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. This is a series of CBSi and the world. I'm John Bachelor. The Pirate King, the

strange adventures of Henry Avery and the birth of the Golden Age of

piracy. Sean Kingsley and Rex

Counter here with me. The story so far, Henry Avery, makes the biggest score

anybody's ever heard of in England. Lots of piracy stories, but this is the biggest. He's a wanted

man. The mogul has made it very difficult for the East India company to continue and

that's a source of great wealth for the early days of the building British Empire,

going through religious wars.

William is a Protestant, he will be succeeded by Anne as a Protestant,

and she will be succeeded by George as a Protestant, the beginning of the

Georges. However, the Catholics went back in and the Catholic King of France is sponsoring

all the time rumors about James who was deposed in the glorious

revolution to come back and take his crown. So there's tension in the air. Our

writing hero Daniel the foe has won the And it is now December 1700.

We're at an inn in Falmouth, which is the node for male going overseas and coming in,

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