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To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products, click here. The initial entry in Nelson's The Brethren of the Coast series after his Revolution at Sea trilogy is first-rate popular action writing. In Virginia, Thomas Marlowe kills a favorite son of the colony's most powerful tobacco family, the Wilkensons, in a duel, incurring the wrath of the entire clan.

Soon after, when he's given command of the colony's guardship Plymouth Prize, Marlowe must deal with the Wilkensons' vendetta, the Prize's decrepitude and inept crew, and his fascination with beautiful widow Elizabeth Tinling whose honor precipitated the duel , before getting around to his main job, fighting Chesapeake Bay pirates who call themselves "men on the account" and "Brethren of the Coast". Malachias Barrett, we learn, was himself a member of "the sweet trade" i. The lovely Elizabeth isn't what she seems, either. The only man in the world Marlowe fears is his ex-captain and current leader of the Brethren, Jean-Pierre LeRois, whose cruelty and cunning are fueled by blazing dementia: Lots of plot twists, some nifty seamanship and a nice collection of secondary characters add ballast to the narrative.

There's a bit of sex and some sly wit as Marlowe tells Elizabeth about "careening" a ship: Despite the general absence of daily colonial texture, readers will gladly be swept along by a wonderful plot. Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc. Without finishing Revolution at Sea, Nelson starts another series, this one set in the Golden Age of piracy. The year is , and Virginia planter Thomas Marlowe is appointed captain of the local guardship, Plymouth Prize. His mission is to defend the Chesapeake Bay area and tobacco commerce from pirates.

Before he assumes command, however, he kills Matthew Wilkenson in a duel over the reputation of the young widow Elizabeth Tinling. After this, he is engaged in four intersecting actions: All this activity involves enough plotting and counterplotting for several books, which, abetted by sound historical scholarship, brisk pacing, and canny exploitation of one of the more obscure corners of maritime history, makes for thoroughly good reading.

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Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. With the bounty from his years as a pirate--a life he intends to renounce and keep forever secret--he purchases a fine plantation from a striking young widow, and soon after kills the favorite son of one of Virginia's most powerful clans while defendin Shortly after Thomas Marlowe's arrival in Williamsburg, Virginia, all in that newfound capital city are speaking his name.

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With the bounty from his years as a pirate--a life he intends to renounce and keep forever secret--he purchases a fine plantation from a striking young widow, and soon after kills the favorite son of one of Virginia's most powerful clans while defending her honor. But it is a daring feat of remarkable cunning that truly sets local tongues wagging: Paperback , pages.


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    • The Brethren of the Coast 1 , Thomas Marlowe 1. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Guardship , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Jul 14, Phillip rated it really liked it. I went into this novel with a pre-cemented love of all things pirates, particularly Captain Blood, by Raphael Sabatini.

    The only pirate novel that has disappointed me is Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides, which was confusing, slow at times, and too "other-worldly" for a pirate novel.

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    Here, Nelson has concocted a group of characters are are all interesting and engaging, and thrust them into an adventurous tale of a man's desire to escape his villainous past and start over again in the New World. For I went into this novel with a pre-cemented love of all things pirates, particularly Captain Blood, by Raphael Sabatini. For a time he succeeds, but it's fairly clear early on that he will not hold his secret long. Like any good pirate novel, Nelson has included an engaging and in ways, unexpected love story. The Guardship is the first in a three-novel series of the main character, Thomas Marlowe, but it could very well stand alone, like Captain Blood, as a complete story that ends more than satisfactorily at the end.

    I also want to focus on Nelson as a writer--he is exceptional. He was inspired by parents who were both English teachers, and their influence on him shows in his vocabulary, and original sentence structure. One of his many effective strategies is to explain the scene from the perspective of the protagonist, and then immediately begin at the beginning of that same scene, but tell it from the perspective of the antagonist, or any other character important to the scene.

    He does this a number of times throughout the story, and I cannot imagine loving this novel as much as I do had he not provided the stories from multiple perspectives. Nelson is a great writer, folks, and not a one-hit wonder. I enthusiastically will delve into the final two books in this trilogy, but for now, am overwhelmed by how much I enjoyed this novel. It brought me several days of pure enjoyment as I watched the injustice, and the revenge play out just as I would have hoped.

    This was a pretty fun, light romance, very swash-buckling adventure tale. Sort of formulaic, but a good read in spite of that. I don't usually go for the adventure books, and almost never for the romances, but this one wasn't too sappy-drippy with the love story, and who doesn't love a pirate that is trying to remake himself into a gentleman?

    I'll probably read the next book in the series, just because I want to see how things end up for Elizabeth and Marlowe. Jan 08, T. Kozumplik rated it really liked it. Jun 27, Elron rated it it was ok Shelves: Entertaining nautical fiction, but practically a romance novel. History and Adventure This is the story of Captain Marlowe, a pirate who decides to go straight around the year The story has numerous subplots including a romance, and the author shows his ability to create a suspenseful plot with loads of action and History and Adventure This is the story of Captain Marlowe, a pirate who decides to go straight around the year The story has numerous subplots including a romance, and the author shows his ability to create a suspenseful plot with loads of action and intrigue.

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    The ships are not described enough that I felt I knew what they were like, and what description was there seemed like it might be wrong. I think by all full rigged ships would be built with a jibboom and modern headsails, and a Navy boatswain could easily convert any older vessels. When the new Vengeance goes aground while pusuiing the guardship, the battle should have ended in half an hour. Launching small boats using stay and yard tackles — his reason for continuing to flee — takes far too long to expose the guardship to boarders on the disengaged side!

    Indeed, several of the naval actions seem poorly conceived. So, just too many flaws that make it hard to suspend disbelief. Sep 20, Patrick SG rated it liked it.

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    Had read this author's "Revolution at Sea" series and enjoyed that. It was set mainly around Rhode Island, which I was familiar with, and this book is set in and around Williamsburg and Tidewater, which I'm even more familiar with, so I thought I'd enjoy it even more. Sad to say I didn't.

    The book is best when it's on the water and the author's experience with sailing ships is put to great use in creating realistic, tense nautical action. When it's ashore, the action is only a cut above a soap o Had read this author's "Revolution at Sea" series and enjoyed that. When it's ashore, the action is only a cut above a soap opera with rather cardboard characters. It was this part of the book that caused me to start and stop reading it over the course of about two months. Aug 28, Julia Maiola rated it it was amazing. It honestly surprises me that this book does not have a higher rating.

    I went into it with mediocre expectations, having just picked it off the bookshelf by chance.

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    Wow, was I blown away. It is quite the page turner. Sometimes it seemed that buildup and tension didn't lead to anything, but it held my attention nonetheless and the stakes were certainly high enough that it mattered to know what would happen next. The characters were all likeable, even the antagonists in their own way. I'm not one It honestly surprises me that this book does not have a higher rating. I'm not one for romance but found myself rooting for the main couple anyway. If you're worried, the romance does not make up a huge part of this book.

    The focus is on the action. An all around enjoyable and recommended read. Jul 14, Erin Moxam rated it really liked it. This is not the usual genre I read, but somewhere along my travels I ended up with the second book in this series, so I thought I should read the first one. I thought if nothing else I would enjoy the historical aspects, but I really enjoyed the whole book.

    Pirates, intrigue and excitement on the high seas, what more could you ask for? With the bounty from his years as a pirate--a life he intends to renounce and keep forever secret--he purchases a fine plantation from a striking young widow, and soon after kills the favorite son of one of Virginia's most powerful clans while defending her honor.

    But it is a daring feat of remarkable cunning that truly sets local tongues wagging: But even as the enigmatic Marlowe bravely leads the King's sailors in bloody pitched battle against the cutthroats who infest the waters off Virginia's shores, a threat from his illicit past looms on the horizon that could doom Marlowe and his plans.

    Jean-Pierre LeRois, captain of the Vengeance--a brigand notorious even among other brigands for his violence and debauchery--plots to seize the colony's wealth, forcing Marlowe to choose between losing all or facing the one man he fears. Only an explosive confrontation on the open sea can determine whether the Chesapeake will be ruled by the crown or the Brethren of the Coast.

    Jean-Pierre LeRois, captain of the Vengeance --a brigand notorious even among other brigands for his violence and debauchery--plots to seize the colony's wealth, forcing Marlowe to choose between losing all or facing the one man he fears.

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