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Privateer
Age of Sail Trilogy - Book Three
by Steve Dahill
Format: Soft Cover
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Privateer follows the Hammond, Briggs, and Gant families, privateering opportunists whose hunting grounds were the world's oceans. In the thick of the War of 1812, privateersmen thieve and prospect to make boundless fortunes, or die trying.
 
The high risk of armed combat on the open sea in Privateer attracts adventurers, riffraff, and the worst of idle sailors in port: smugglers, drunks, slavers, and women like Mary Celeste Hammond and her paramours, Ben Briggs and Quartus Gant, each with the stomach to inflict violence and seduce society, singularly to win immeasurable spoils.
 
Power proves malleable, conflict as common as salt and water when respectable families, heartless financiers, rough-hewn men with calloused hands, and young lads with hungry stomachs all struggle to survive in Privateer. Which of these chancers will survive the violence, make their fortune, yet keep their souls intact?
...I couldn’t put it down... really well written with vivid details into an era and sea setting I knew little about... an enjoyable adventure.
        —    Bruce Gellerman, former NPR reporter, Here & Now Host
 
Steve Dahill exhibits a remarkable prowess in weaving characters into the intricate tapestry of historical and geographical context. His writing possesses a substantial and robust quality, immersing readers in a tangible and vivid experience, a testament to his skillful storytelling.
        —Maureen Gillis, Development Director, Hull Lifesaving Museum
 
…I smelled the salt air as I read Steve Dahill's fast-paced, suspenseful, Secrets of the Mary Celeste. Enjoy it by candlelight with a tin cup of grog at your side before it comes to a theatre near you.
        —Dan Shaughnessy - Boston Globe columnist, author, and member of Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.