By William Dietrich
As magnificent and motion packed because the most sensible novels of James Rollins, George MacDonaldFraser, and Steve Berry, The Barbary Pirates could have readers cheering for William Dietrich and his rushing hero, Ethan Gage!
Swashbuckling American explorer and ladies' guy Ethan Gage has obvious his justifiable share of possibility, having braved the sands of Egypt, the perils of the Atlantic Ocean, and the cruel desolate tract of early the US. once again, he reveals himself in a determined race—this time with the Barbary Pirates, a strong band of Muslim outlaws from North Africa. additionally after Ethan is his nemesis—and former lover—Aurora Somerset, member of a deadly sect known as the Egyptian ceremony. The prize is the replicate of Archimedes, an historic superweapon that, based on legend, as soon as burned a Roman fleet with its energy. In 1802, this demise ray may possibly tip the stability of energy within the Mediterranean, and Ethan needs to cease the pirates from utilizing it opposed to the yankee, English, and French fleets.
From the salons and brothels of the Palais Royal of Paris, the place the search for info approximately his misplaced love Astiza includes real-life scientists and engineers—including inventor Robert Fulton—Ethan needs to shuttle at Napoleon's behest to the canals of Venice, the caves of Santorini, the dungeons of Tripoli, and at last to treachery at the excessive seas within the Mediterranean.
Can Ethan rescue Astiza with out betraying the reason for his personal usa? Can he shop the two-year-old son he only in the near past chanced on he had with out permitting the Egyptian ceremony to eventually dominate the realm? And while the sunlight rises at the reflect of Archimedes, will every thing Ethan cares approximately be set afire?
Delivering the fast moving experience, uncanny wit, and page-turning old pleasure that readers have come to anticipate from the masterful William Dietrich, The Barbary Pirates is Ethan Gage at his winningest, so much hilarious, and such a lot loss of life defying.
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