James Nelson 
The Guardship 
A thrilling, rip-roaring naval adventure guaranteed to keep you gripped

If you like Patrick O”Brian and Bernard Cornwell, you will love this exciting, action-packed maritime adventure from bestselling author James Nelson.

‘A master both of his period and of the English language’ — PATRICK O”BRIAN
‘Brilliant…Readers will gladly be swept along by a wonderful plot’ — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
‘Don”t just buy this one to see if you like it, get the three at once and cancel any engagements for the next several days.’ — ***** Reader review
‘Read it far too quickly’ — ***** Reader review
‘Superb’ — ***** Reader review

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WHEN THE PAST THREATENS TO CATCH UP WITH HIM, CAN HE MUSTER THE STRENGTH HE NEEDS?
When Thomas Marlowe decides to renounce his life as a pirate – and keep it a secret, he uses the bounty he has amassed to purchase a fine Virginia plantation from a beautiful young widow, Elizabeth Tinling.
While defending her honour, he kills the favourite son of one of the colony”s most powerful families. But in a clever piece of manoeuvring, he manages to win command of the Plymouth Prize , the colony”s decrepit guardship, and is charged with leading the King”s sailors in battle against the cutthroats who infest the waters off Virginia”s shores.
A threat from his illicit past appears, however, as an old pirate enemy plots to seize the colony”s wealth, forcing Marlowe to choose between losing all – or facing the one man he fears.
The Guardship is the first book of the Brethren of the Coast trilogy. Marlowe”s story continues in The Blackbirder.