Don't Tread On Me

by Walter Karig, Horace V. Bird

JOHN PAUL JONES: Pirate, naval genius, bastard son of a Scottish lord, first hero of the American Navy

The penniless adventurer with a price on his head, who rose to a fame which shook the world.

He defied the might of the British Fleet under the guns of their own ports. He was equally at home in Europe's sumptuous capitals or on the bridge of a fighting ship. He was loved by the beautiful women of three continents. He was John Paul Jones - red-headed, hot-blooded seafighter!

311 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1954

About the author

Walter Karig (1898-1956) was a Captain in the U. S. Navy and wrote a number of books referring to World War II. He was also an author of television scripts for war-related programs like "Victory At Sea." For the Syndicate, he wrote volumes in the Perry Pierce series (2-4), Doris Force series (3-4), and Nancy Drew series (8-10). He earned a bad reputation with the Syndicate by writing to the Library of Congress and requesting authorial credit for the three Nancy Drew volumes he wrote. The Library staff assumed that he wrote all of the books. Both the fact that he revealed himself as "Carolyn Keene" and the mistake on the part of the library catalogers were a source of tremendous consternation for the Syndicate. At one point, Harriet S. Adams wrote to Mildred Wirt (the author of the first 25 volumes in the Nancy Drew series, except for the three written by Karig) and said that the Syndicate would rue the day that they ever hired Karig, and that if anyone could claim to be "Carolyn Keene" it would be Wirt.