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Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer. However, Captain William Kidd was no career cut-throat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to chase pirates. Across the oceans of the world, the pirate hunter, Kidd, pursued the pirate, Culliford. One man would hang in the harbor; the other would walk away with the treasure. The Pirate Hunter is both a masterpiece of historical detective work and a page-turner.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But...

Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown, and then violently opposed them. Upending popular misconceptions and cartoonish stereotypes, Dolin provides this wholly original account of these seafaring outlaws.

Pirate Hunter is the story about Denmark’s Marine Commandos’ battle against the pirates off the Horn of Africa as told by one of the men who was closest to the action for the five years the campaign lasted. Henrik Monggaard Christensen is a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Danish Navy and a specialist Tactical Co-ordinator who was tasked with the planning and execution of the Danish mission against the Somali pirates in the western Arabian Sea. In this book he reveals his version of the Danish counter-piracy efforts that he experienced from the front-seat of a Lynx helicopter.

Over the years, thousands of tales both true and fantastic have been told about the dastardly thievery of pirates. Their rum-drunk exploits and high-seas violence never fail to delight. Now in a brand new series collection, The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told includes many of the very best pirate yarns ever created on history’s most debaucherous scalawags. Anyone who loves a good story full of excitement, adventure, thrills, and laughs will find this collection irresistible.

PIRATA - the action-packed novel of pirates in the Roman Empire in AD 25. Across the seas of the Adriaticum, pirates face mortal danger from wild storms, fight to hold their own against merciless rival pirates, and wrangle amongst themselves over hard-won treasure. While the Roman navy hunts...

Fresh off her victory over the pirates, Chloe orders her newly captured ship into port. Almost immediately upon entering Potterville Port, she begins to have suspicions about the harbormaster’s office. She and the local league office rep quickly find corruption within the office. After helping the office rep deal with that, she also develops suspicions about the harbormaster’s office being involved with the pirates. Before being able to begin being able to deal with that, Chloe and her party, along with the party her sister is in, are called back to the main league office and assigned ...

Hunting pirates is hard…especially when your only assets are an unarmed ship, two ex-naval officers, a makeup artist, and a couple of pistols. But that’s exactly what Brad Mendoza and Jessica Lin have signed up to do on the edge of the Fringe: to help a bunch of farmers on a dead-end planet fight the pirate threat! Quickly, they find that they really don’t know what they’re doing…and not everything is what it seems.

Shortly before the Great San Francisco Earthquake, Pirate Vishnu strikes the San Francisco Bay. An ancestor of Jaya's who came to the US from India draws a treasure map. Over a century later, the cryptic treasure map remains undeciphered.

Daniel Zacharias has a new body. Injured by space pirates, in the line of duty for the Intergalactic Military Forces, he's now a Rebuilt. After a failed mission, he's sent off to a remote planet simply known as NGC6637-VIII, to protect sailing ships. Against more pirates. Not only does he have to work with strange technology, visit odd bars and dangerous waters, his boss's daughter isn't making life easy for him either. Is he destined to fail again or will he really be the Pirate Hunter?

That fiancee? She’s married—to another guy. The family business? His parents sold it. Jack Bennet returns from the war to find the life he left behind has moved on without him. The only option he has to make ends meet lies in a military surplus junkyard starship. What’s a former Combat Search and Rescue soldier to do?

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.

This is a dramatic and little-known story of the First World War, when the actions of a few men shaped the fate of nations. By 1914, Germany had ships and sailors scattered across the globe, protecting its overseas colonies and “showing the flag” of its new Imperial Navy. After war broke out on August 4 there was no hope that they could reach home. Instead, they were ordered to attack Britain’s vital trade routes for as long as possible.

A charming nobleman accidentally joins a pirate ship and falls for its debonair captain in this swashbuckling queer debut that’s perfect for fans of F.T. Lukens and Our Flag Means Death. Kit Davenport is in trouble—not that this would surprise anyone who knows him. Headstrong, reckless, and...

🌌 Embark on Enchanted Evenings with "Goodnight, Pirates"🌌 Step aboard *The Dreaming Corsair* and set sail into a sea of dreams with our latest eBook, "Goodnight, Pirates". This treasure trove of bedtime stories whisks young readers and listeners alike on captivating adventures beneath star-filled skies and over whispering waves. Each of the eight tales is a gentle voyage to the land of dreams, where pirates seek treasures of slumber and friendship under the moon's watchful eye. From the quest for a magical treasure map blanket that leads to dreamland, to the discovery of a hidden cove...

An alien conspiracy to enslave the human-populated planets... Two merc rivals out for each other’s blood... A military pilot locked in strange symbiosis with an alien Zikri… A simple mission to The Dim Zone to collect alien plant samples ends in disaster. Why would CEO Mathias of Cyber Corp on Phallanor finance such a mission? Mercenary Yul Vrean and badass space rogue Regers find out…the hard way. Deadly space battles, bio-mechanical fusion, killer aliens...a touch of the bizarre and fantastic…a rare feast to intrigue fans of Alien and The Matrix... Books contained in this series: ...

A HEART TORN BETWEEN REVENGE & LOVE With the teachings of her adopted parent, Inanna Swynford has become a fierce battle hardened warrior and her heart knows but one goal, to avenge her murdered parents by bringing the pirate Lord Ignacio Pierre to justice. While pursuing Lord Pierre from the islands of the Caribbean to the island of Madagascar, Inanna finds her heart now has other desires when Windsor Cromwell steps into her life. Inanna finds her attraction to this man is a distraction that she doesn’t know how to deal with. She knows that she needs him to decipher a treasure map that ...

Marlee Stafford was no fool.... She knew the handsome, arrogant Richard Arden had married her for her money, just as she'd wedded him for his aristocratic name. But Marlee wasn't about to give up all control to the too-confident baron. She would not sign over her inheritance until she'd enticed her handsome, broad-shouldered husband into desiring only her. But when his hungry kisses began to ignite her most intimate desires, Marlee knew she'd made a weighty error, for this mysterious man harbored a dark secret -- and now he was holding her helpless under HIS spell! Lark Arden's passions ran...

I was supposed to disappear. I broke out of a breeders’ research wing with nothing but a stolen datachip and a half-healed brand on my wrist. If I can get the evidence to the right Allied magistrate, the entire program falls. If they catch me first, I vanish into a black site no one will ever audit. I almost make it three sectors before the hunters find me. They move like a unit: four Alphas in matte-black armor, off-book and off-duty, hired under the table to bring the runaway breeder in alive. They call themselves a “containment team.” The rest of the galaxy calls them monsters. I ...

The Lost Treasure: One Piece - The New World In the treacherous and uncharted waters of the New World, adventure calls to those brave enough to answer. The Straw Hat Pirates, led by the indomitable Monkey D. Luffy, have sailed through countless dangers, but nothing could prepare them for the challenges that lie ahead. The New World is a place where the strongest survive, and legends are born. Amidst the chaos of pirate crews vying for supremacy, whispers of an ancient treasure resurface—a treasure said to be more valuable than even the legendary One Piece. As Luffy and his crew navigate ...