James L. Nelson
In this, the final book in the “Brethren of the Coast” trilogy, former pirate Thomas Marlowe returns to his old trade. Although this career move is somewhat beyond his control, brought on by declining tobacco prices and an encounter with an old enemy, he isn’t really reluctant to embark on a piratical voyage to the Red Sea in search of Muslim gold. Along the way he has to deal with a doubtful crew and the pirate “lord” of a pirate town in Madagascar.
Like the first two books in the series, this is rich in action and plot, but characterization is not neglected. Nelson doesn’t hesitate to put his main characters at risk But unlike most popular fiction authors, his characters get hurt and, in fact, a major character is… But completing that sentence would spoil the reader’s fun.