On this sweltering, voodoo-crazed island off the Mosquito Coast, the British Empire is breathing its last, subject to the forays of a marauding army of runaways and doped-up derelicts who have unleashed a reign of terror, death and destruction upon a local population hysterically possessed by zombies.
The British need a man to take charge, shoot straight and spit in the enemy's eye. Captain Gringo's that man – tough, brutal, a no-nonsense survivor who makes war for profit and love for free across two continents and a thousand heartbreaks. Captain Gringo – no man can stop him, and no woman can refuse him!