The Pirate Round
A gripping, action-packed naval page-turner you won’t be able to put down
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Publisher Description
Another gripping, captivating and unputdownable naval adventure from the pen of bestselling author James Nelson. Perfect for readers of Julian Stockwin, CS Forester and Alexander Kent.
"A master both of his period and of the English language" PATRICK O'BRIAN
"A master storyteller" -- SAILING
"Brilliant...Readers will gladly be swept along by a wonderful plot" -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"A great swashbuckling adventure!" -- ***** READER REVIEW
"Compelling and easy to read" -- ***** READER REVIEW
"James Nelson is a master storyteller who breathes life into his characters and immerses you in his stories.....great seafaring adventures..." -- ***** READER REVIEW
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CAN YOU EVER REALLY ESCAPE THE PAST?
Former pirate and captain of the Guardship,Thomas Marlowe, is now a man of property, keeping his prosperous tobacco plantation in Virginia with his beautiful wife Elizabeth. But the Anglo-Spanish war has meant a decline in tobacco prices, and Thomas decides to come to England to trade his wares, little thinking that in the busy streets of London he will meet an old enemy from his pirating days.
Forced to abandon his tobacco and flee, he has to take to sea and finds himself in battle with the ships bound for the Moghul Empire, and in Madagascar he at last comes face to face with his pirate foes.
The Pirate Round is the final book in the Brethren of the Coast trilogy. Have you read The Guardship and The Blackbirder?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Former pirate Thomas Marlowe returns to his old trade in this third and final novel in Nelson's Brethren of the Coast series (The Guardship; The Blackbirder). It is the year 1706, and Marlowe has been a (fairly) respectable Virginia tobacco plantation owner since 1700. But now war in Europe is choking the tobacco business, and Marlowe is nearly broke. It is his beautiful wife, Elizabeth, who comes up with a solution: to save his land and dubious reputation, Marlowe will resort to his old profession. He recruits a motley crew, including his wife, sails to London to sell some tobacco, and then intends to proceed to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean to prey on the treasure ships of the Great Mogul, ruler of India. Marlowe is recognized in London, however, by a psychotic enemy who pursues him to the pirate stronghold of Madagascar. Marlowe finds no sanctuary there; instead, he encounters Lord Elephiant Yancy, a treacherous pirate leader who fancies Marlowe's wife and has murderous plans for Marlowe and his pursuers alike. Marlowe, however, is a man of proven courage, loyalty, ruthlessness and trickery, so he has some bloody surprises for Yancy and the cutthroats who would threaten his wife and crew. This is a rousing swashbuckler filled with treasure, sea battles, feuds, revenge, romance and deadly conspiracies. Nelson's Marlowe is an antihero, a man of action and honor who is also larcenous and forever scheming a good man, but not too good. Nelson's portrayal of the pirate menace and its unique seagoing society is thorough, accurate, colorful and utterly convincing, providing a full broadside of reading entertainment.
