Hardcover from a non smoking home, signed by author.  Dust jacket is vivid and glossy with no rips, creases or blemishes.  Interior pages are crisp, clean and intact with no rips, one page had a crease.  Binding is intact and secure.  This is the true but stranger than fiction of how an American naval captain disobeyed orders and essentially waged a rogue one man war on British naval assets and the disasterous consequences of his actions on both his crew, his ship, and indigenous peoples and developing countries in South America.