Since Amazon didn't post an editorial review, here's the description from the back of the book to help you decide if this book is for you: "Emmie Dashwood was left only one family treasure: magnificent, innocent beauty ... she was sold as a wife to an aged Canadian general, a crony of her libertine grandfather who engineered wanton orgies from his sickbed ... Taken as a prize of flesh, time and time again, by American Indians, French Fur trappers, Irish soldiers, and upperclass Englishmen who dared her to tell ... Hounded for life by Snakey, the "gentleman" slave trader who lost her th moment he almost had her ... Man after man craved careless pleasures from her, but only one man ever truly cared ... Nathan Grant, a sea captain whose love for her survived the battle's clamor on an angry sea, saling from America to England and back again, always wanting, always waiting, never for a mement surrendering a deep desire for Emmie's love ..."

I loved this book! The story had so many twists and turns that even though I knew how I wanted it to end, how it should end, I wasn't sure that it would until I got there. And even when I was reading what I'd wanted to, chills went through me, because it was so perfect. I hope people can take the time to read this, because its worth it!

The tale told by Captain Picard in this second "Captain's Table" novel is, in and of itself, amusing but not engrossing. Almost all of the pleasure one could get from it is sapped by the ever-increasing interruptions that return us to the far-too hokey Captain's Table bar. The interruptions do not, as one reviewer suggested, lend a sense of realism. Rather, they continually remind us how contrived the whole set up is. As with War Dragons, the tale itself is *not* written in the way one would expect a story to be told at a bar, and Picard's voice is not always captured. My advice to those who are about to read this one: read only the chapters captioned "Tale." Skip all of the others.

Michael Jan Friedman is ordinarily among the best of the Trek writers; it is unfortunate that he allowed himself to get roped into the Captain's Table idea. A fine talent, an interesting challenge (a first-person Picard tale), but a wasted effort.

In this second book of "The Captain's Table" series, it is Jean-Luc Picard's turn to find himself in the strange watering hole that transcends time and space where he must spin his own tale of adventure. Michael Jan Friedman offers what is essentially a swashbuckling tale, set in deep space instead of on the high sea. Picard and Worf go off in search of the fabled treasure, Dujonian's Hoard, jewels that are not only worth an untold fortune but which are perhaps more powerful than dilithium as a power source. The pair join the crew of a ship captained by Red Abby, who claims to know where the treasure is, but who turns out to have more secrets than "Hill," Picard's alias for this adventure. Just to make things fun there are Cardassians, Romulans and the overly-rule governed Abinarri on the trail of the treasure, our heroes, or both. "Dujonian's Hoard" is a rather mundane "pirate" story, with the change in setting or addition of Picard adding little new or substantive to the tale with the possible exception of how often Picard gets beat up in this story. This novel is diverting but not a memorable Star Trek novel. Because these tales are told in the first person, Friedman jumps back and forth almost incessantly between the bar on Madigoor and the tale Picard is telling. While I appreciate the attempt at verisimilitude with the audience that keeps interrupting and asking questions that are always a step or two ahead of the tale being told, it just become too much after a while. The book also contains Friedman's biography of Jean-Luc Picard, which does a nice job of sorting out the major themes in the character's career. Again, because of the nature of these stories there is no compelling need to read all of the books in this series or to read them in any particular order. Finally: what's up with the lizard?

The Captain's Table is a place that transcends time and space. Only Captain's may enter. A wonderful concept that is carried to fruition quite exceptionally by Michael Jan Friedman in "Dujonian's Hoard." I approached this one with a little trepidation after trudging through "War Dragons." Of course, knowing the author, I knew this one would be a lot better. I was not disappointed.
"Dujonian's Hoard" is a wonderful tale with Captain Picard and Lieutenant Worf going undercover. They intend to find a missing Starfleet officer, Richard Brant who was searching for the hoard and return him to the Federation.
This is a really well done tale. While others might have thought the interruptions from the other bar patrons distracting, I rather enjoyed the character interactions.
Overall an excellent story by one of the best authors in the Trek series. Thank you to the author for this one!

The Time of The Hawklords is but a collection of space dreaming sequences based upon the ideas of the rock group Hawkwind, with the seed of Michael Moorcock on some of its compositions and in the mood of the group as well, that is why you cannot speak about the book without referring to the music. The book itself is an exercise of baroque descrptions and actions depicting the band members as psychedelic characters travelling through the Universe in a decadent space-hulk, armed with musical weapons. The visual imaginery of the story relates it to similar parallel universes as those of the 2000 A.D. or Warhammer 40K wargaming series.