Amazon: http://amzn.to/2cyTLRe
OK, the guy was a bit of a mountebank and the book might be verging on the childish and superficial -- not really selling this am I -- but it's another good old fashioned Sci-Fi action adventure.
Clearly from a simpler time when it was OK for authors to sail around with their private navies -- who just happened to personed exclusively by female seapersons.