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The Age of Sail Trilogy by Steve Dahill
Secrets of Mary Celeste - Book One
Clipper Wars - Book Two
Privateer - Book Three
Format: Soft Cover
Privateer: Book Three
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?
Clipper Wars: Book Two
The world's greatest sailing race shreds the oceans in Clipper Wars’ competition for gold, prominence, and revenge.
At the height of the California Gold Rush, the Gant and Briggs families race to the death from New York to San Francisco aboard extreme clipper ships, the largest, fastest sailing ships ever built.
Follows the lives of venal captains, ruthless pirates, and tainted sailors. Calamity and the ultimate prize await the lucky clipper captain who reaches the Golden Gate after a 17,000-mile voyage around treacherous Cape Horn. Which unscrupulous competitors sacrifice everything to win the Clipper Wars?
Secrets of Mary Celeste: Book One
When the Mary Celeste is found adrift off the Azores Islands, Mary Celeste Briggs’ devoted son, Alexander is unaware that his own father absconded with the entire family fortune, now lost at sea. The teenager hires a smuggler to rescue his family. Through nefarious backchannels, the cruel smuggler captain is privy to the fortune, and aims to steal it. Will his lonely daughter help Alexander Briggs outwit the smuggler in a desperate race to find his missing family before they perish?