vvb32 reads: Pirate Code by Helen Hollick

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Pirate Code by Helen Hollick

Pirate Code
by Helen Hollick

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Re-released: July 2011
Publisher: SilverWood Books
Genre: Action, Pirates
Paperback: 302 pages
Rating: 5

Synopsis:
Ex pirate, Captain Jesamiah Acorne, is in trouble.

Big Trouble.

All he wants is to marry his girl, Tiola Oldstagh, and live contented aboard his ship, Sea Witch. But her husband refuses to grant a divorce unless Jesamiah agrees to retrieve some barrels of indigo and smuggle them out of the Spanish-held Caribbean island of Hispaniola.

The Governor of Nassau wants Jesamiah to go there too, to help incite a rebellion, and Captain Henry Jennings wants him to find a lost spy. To cap it all, Commodore Vernon of the Royal Navy wants to expand his fleet and craves the Sea Witch for himself.

As Jesamiah’s hopes for a quiet life tumble about him, the onset of war with Spain scuppers everyone’s plans. Hispaniola is governed by a tyrant who has promised to hang, draw and quarter Jesamiah if ever he sets foot there again, while the lovely widow, Senora Francesca Escudero would prefer to seduce him.

READ an excerpt.

Series:
Sea Witch - Voyage One
Pirate Code - Voyage Two
Bring it Close - Voyage Three
Ripples in the Sand - Voyage Four (expected publication Winter 2011/12)

Amusing quote:
Know-it-all know-nothings the lot of them.
- page 86, chapter 14

My two-bits:
In-a-word(s): bravado
The story continues (works as a stand-alone too) of Captain Acorne and his lady love, Tiola and a third side of a love triangle who shall remain nameless ;-D

This story is just as action packed as the previous and includes more pirate politics.

Love watching (reading) pirate lore and love of the sea (and freedom) come alive.

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