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Synopsis
Book One of the Brethren of the Coast trilogy, featuring Thomas Marlowe
With the bounty from his years as a pirate - a life he intends to renounce and keep forever secret - Thomas Marlowe purchases a fine Virginia plantation from a beautiful young widow, Elizabeth Tinling. Soon afterwards, while defending her honour, he kills the favourite son of one of the colony's most powerful families in a duel. But in a clever piece of manoeuvring he manages to win command of the Plymouth Prize, the colony's decrepit guardship, and is charged with leading the King's sailors in bloody pitched battle against the cutthroats who infest the waters off Virginia's shores.
A threat from his illicit past appears, however, as an old pirate enemy plots to seize the colony's wealth, forcing Marlowe to choose between losing all - or facing the one man he fears.
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Review
"'A master both of his period and of the English language'" (Patrick O'Brian)
"'Brilliant...Readers will gladly be swept along by a wonderful plot'" ( Publishers Weekly)
From the Author
Happy to be Here
I am delighted to finally have a book published in the UK! My other series, the Revolution at Sea, concerning naval action during the American Revolution, has not met with great enthusiasm among British publishers, but The Guardship is about a time when we, Americans and British, were all one. Having lived in England (Sidcup) and having a love of naval history (and being named Nelson!) all makes it that much more gratifying to have a book out in the UK. The Guardship is very much about the difficulties and benefits of being a far-off colony. The tax on tobbacco grown in Virginia was a major source of revenue for the Crown, but still the Chesapeake was considered a back water by the Royal Navy, which sent the most decrepit ships and corrupt captains there, where they would be out of the way. This, and the fact that there were a number of pirates who "retired" and came ashore to live lives of ease, formed the germ of an idea that became The Guardship. I hope readers will enjoy this and the next two to come in the Brethren of the Coast series. I would love to hear any comments.
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