The Guardship

If you like Patrick O'Brian and Bernard Cornwell, you will love this exciting, action-packed maritime adventure from bestselling author James Nelson. " 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 " Don't just buy this one to see if you like it, get the three at once and cancel any engagements for the next several days." -- ***** Reader review " Read it far too quickly" -- ***** Reader review " Superb" -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************** WHEN THE PAST THREATENS TO CATCH UP WITH HIM, CAN HE MUSTER THE STRENGTH HE NEEDS? When Thomas Marlowe decides to renounce his life as a pirate - and keep it a secret, he uses the bounty he has amassed to purchase a fine Virginia plantation from a beautiful young widow, Elizabeth Tinling. While defending her honour, he kills the favourite son of one of the colony's most powerful families. 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 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. The Guardship is the first book of the Brethren of the Coast trilogy. Marlowe's story continues in The Blackbirder .