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<p>In the wake of <i>The Guardship</i> comes the second in the Brethren of the Coast trilogy and the swash-buckling adventures of former pirate Thomas Marlowe.</p><p>In a blind rage, King James, ex-slave and now Marlowe's comrade in arms, slaughters the crew of a slave ship and makes himself the most wanted man in Virginia. The governor gives Marlowe a choice: Hunt James down and bring him back to hang or lose everything Marlowe has built for himself and his wife, Elizabeth.</p><p>Marlowe sets out in pursuit of the ex-slave turned pirate, struggling to maintain control over his crew -- rough privateers who care only for plunder -- and following James's trail of destruction. But Marlowe is not James's only threat, as factions aboard James's own ship vie for control and betrayal stalks him to the shores of Africa.</p><p>And it is in Africa, in the slave port of Whydah, that James and Marlowe must face a common threat and their own final showdown.</p>
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The Blackbirder, James L. Nelson
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2001
- Einband
- (Hardcover)
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- Titel
- The Blackbirder
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- James L. Nelson
- Verlag
- William Morrow
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2001
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0380804530
- ISBN13
- 9780380804535
- Reihe
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Historisches Thema, Abenteuer, Gegenwartsliteratur, USA, Kriege, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Amerikanische Literatur, Action, Überleben, Geschenke, Piraten, Alternativgeschichte, Seefahrt
- Beschreibung
- <p>In the wake of <i>The Guardship</i> comes the second in the Brethren of the Coast trilogy and the swash-buckling adventures of former pirate Thomas Marlowe.</p><p>In a blind rage, King James, ex-slave and now Marlowe's comrade in arms, slaughters the crew of a slave ship and makes himself the most wanted man in Virginia. The governor gives Marlowe a choice: Hunt James down and bring him back to hang or lose everything Marlowe has built for himself and his wife, Elizabeth.</p><p>Marlowe sets out in pursuit of the ex-slave turned pirate, struggling to maintain control over his crew -- rough privateers who care only for plunder -- and following James's trail of destruction. But Marlowe is not James's only threat, as factions aboard James's own ship vie for control and betrayal stalks him to the shores of Africa.</p><p>And it is in Africa, in the slave port of Whydah, that James and Marlowe must face a common threat and their own final showdown.</p>