The Blackbirder

Name: The Blackbirder
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: James L. Nelson
ISBN: 9798765007020

Author: James L. Nelson

Series: Brethren of the Coast #2

Narrator: James Cameron Stewart

Unabridged: 12 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/23/2023

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

In a blind rage, King James, ex-slave and now Marlowe's comrade in arms, slaughters the crew of a slave ship and makes himself the most wanted man in Virginia. The governor gives Marlowe a choice: Hunt James down and bring him back to hang or lose everything Marlowe has built for himself and his wife, Elizabeth.

Marlowe sets out in pursuit of the ex-slave turned pirate, struggling to maintain control over his crew—rough privateers who care only for plunder—and following James's trail of destruction. But Marlowe is not James's only threat, as factions aboard James's own ship vie for control and betrayal stalks him to the shores of Africa.

About James L. Nelson

Naval enthusiast James L. Nelson is the award-winning author of many works of fiction and nonfiction. His books include George Washington's Secret Navy, which won the Naval Order's prestigious Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and Glory in the Name, which was selected as the winner of the American Library Association's W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. He has appeared on the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and C-SPAN's Book TV. He lives in Maine with his family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charles

Pirates privateers, slave traders and a rabid abolitionist A good read but not as good as THE GUARDSHIP, volume one in Nelson's BRETHREN OF THE COAST series about pirates in Colonial America, particularly Virginia. This one takes the main characters across the Atlantic to the slave coast in West Afri......more

Goodreads review by Julia

Unlike the first book, the main conflict in this one is set up within the first three chapters. The events which cause King James to go on the run are described immediately, and the implications of his actions are fully understood by the other characters and the reader. As a result, the book starts......more

Goodreads review by John

What a sea-sailing adventure! However Thomas Marlowe freeing his slaves in the early 1700's would have been EXTREMELY RARE IF NOT UNHEARD OF. You can't make a fictional character set in the 1700s attractive, have an attractive wife, successful pirate/privateer, successful business/plantation owner AN......more

Goodreads review by Enrico

Il libro non è male, ma ha un problema importante a livello di avversari. Se i Wilkenson erano nemici interessanti e diversi tra loro, per via delle differenze tra George e Jacob, qua gli avversari sono troppo simili. L'unica differenza è il grado di follia che li caratterizza, più alto in uno rispe......more

Goodreads review by Sunhawk

Best if read after The Guardship, the first in this trilogy. Same interesting characters, and a window into an ugly time in American history, or, for that matter, European history. A wonderful character in King James, a liberated slave who overcomes his hatred to become our hero Marlowe's ally.......more