Captain Sinbad by Graham Diamond

 

Sinbad is renowned in Bagdad as an adventurer, soldier and hero.  He is about to marry his long time love, Scheherazade, when the Caliph decides to take her as his own wife and makes Sinbad a criminal.  Sinbad flees Bagdad but is determined to return and marry his love.

His plan is to find a ship and sail until he can find the elusive Red Dahlia which is said to allow the finder to have his most desperate wish.  As Sinbad starts the journey, he finds a talking frog and promises to help him return to being ordinary.  Off they go and soon Sinbad has a ship and crew.

There are many adventures.  Sinbad is captured by female pirates and then imprisoned by the Greeks.  He encounters storms like he has never seen and washes up in Spain in a small village which is about to be overrun by an army of thieves and murderers.  In all his travels, he falls in love with women who help him.  But can he ever get back to Scheherazade?

Graham Diamond writes predominantly in the fantasy and science fiction genres.  This book is a rollicking retelling of the legend of Captain Sinbad and all his adventures.  The reader will be immersed in intrigues, storms, battles and given peaks into Sinbad's way with women and his loyalty to those he surrounds himself with.  This book is recommended for fantasy readers.