Fight for Freedom (Pirate Devlin 1)

by Mark Keating (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $3.30

  Sold by his father for four guineas, Patrick Devlin knows just how cheap life is in a world of slavery, violence and greed.

  Devlin is taken as a servant by Captain John Coxon of the Royal Navy, whose job in this uneasy peace time is to protect the stupendous wealth of the East India Trading Company.

  But when pirates sink Coxon's ship, Devlin willingly trades his servile existence for their life of dangerous liberty.

  And when he sets off in pursuit of a secret cargo of French bullion, it is Coxon - disgraced and hungry for revenge - who is despatched to bring his former dog to heel.

  Fight for Freedom was published in hardback under the title The Pirate Devlin.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2010

  $3.30

  As the great powers of Europe fight over the spoils of slavery, corruption and greed, the golden age of piracy is born. Sold by his father as a child for four guineas, captain's servant Patrick Devlin knows how cheap a man's life can be. But his instinct for survival is strong, and when his master's ship is sunk by pirates, Devlin makes his choice -- to trade his servile existence for a life of dangerous liberty. As he learns to adapt to his brutal new world, he watches men who would once have been his masters fall dead at his feet. Eventually, he finds himself captain of the very ship that took down the vessel of the man he once served -- Captain John Coxon -- who, disgraced and dissatisfied, hungers to return to the sea and take his revenge. And when His Majesty's Government and the East India Company hear of the Pirate Devlin, and that he is in pursuit of a secret French cargo of gold bullion, it is Coxon they send to bring his former dog to heel.