The Tern Schooner

The Privateers and Gentlemen Series - Book 5

The Tern Schooner

By Walter Jon Williams
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Devastated by the loss of his family, Gideon Markham has retreated to his ship and the life of the sea. Heir to a privateering tradition, he brings his schooner into the Gulf of Mexico to wage unremitting war on the British who threaten America’s freedom.

But the puritanical Gideon finds the Gulf a strange and threatening place, and soon he must face Jean Laffite’s pirates, a mutiny, an attack by Red Stick Creeks, and a British invasion … none of which he finds as baffling and alarming as Maria-Anna Johnson de Marquez, an attractive widow who gambles at cards, brandishes a pair of pistols, and plans to lead an expedition into the heart of enemy territory, with Gideon as her guide and pawn.

Originally published as The Yankee, this is one of the action-packed historical novels with which Walter Jon Williams began his career.

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  1. Odin
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    Exciting high seas story

    If your cup of tea is a story rising out of the war of 1812, Williams has delivered an action-adventure on the high seas that will entertain and educate even the novice in sailing jargon, personalities, and the rudimentary means of battle weapons during that time. The battles and duels of the tall ships fill the story with captured enemy ships to the privateer, Gideon Markham, and one is filled with awe at the Red Stick Creeks ability to deal and play the power game with pirates. Williams knows how to tell a story, for sure.

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