Western Kentucky, 1800. An old woman sits by the fire with a canvas bag in her lap, reading the words cut into four gold medallions. Through storms and troubles you shall go and you will find the horseshoe's gold. They are most of what came back of her father and her brother.
Eighty years earlier, John O'Flynn set out to take the wealth of Spain - fifty-one ships in convoy, the gold of the New World in their holds, and the largest robbery any man had attempted. He could not do it alone. He went to the pirates: Edward Teach, not yet Blackbeard; Nathaniel Smith, who would betray them all; and the captains who came for the gold and stayed for the fight.
What they took cost more than it was worth. Honor is the story of the people left holding the bill.
Keith Durbin left this novel as a complete rough draft at his death. His son Nick finished it - a novel about a daughter who inherits what she cannot use, completed by the son who could.
