Mark M. McMillin

Mark M. McMillin was born in Indiana, USA, in 1954 and has been a soldier (11th Armored Cavalry Regiment), businessman and corporate attorney. He has written three books about the little known but true exploits of Captain Luke Ryan - Irish smuggler, American patriot and Benjamin Franklin's most dangerous privateer during the American War of Independence

Age of Sail: Fiction

AOS Privateer Fiction

Series: Captain Luke Ryan, Benjamin Franklin's Most Dangerous Privateer
Gather the Shadowmen : Luke Ryan is ruined but concocts a bold plan to break his men out of jail and to retake his ship
Prince of the Atlantic : Ryan and his men will capture or destroy over 100 British ships, take hundreds of prisoners and invade English and Scottish towns
Napoleon's Gold : Ryan is tried for treason and piracy, convicted and sentenced to hang
 
Series: Captain Bloody Mary, the Queen's Privateer
The Butcher's Daughter: A Journey Between Worlds : Queen Elizabeth spares Mary from the headman’s axe in exchange for her loyalty
Blood for Blood: The Uncertain Journey : Queen Elizabeth sends Mary south with the English “Counter Armada”
Ill Winds Blowing Across a Troubled Sea: The Journey's End : Mary resumes smuggling contraband but a freakish wave sweeps her overboard.

The author's official web site is privateerlukeryan.com

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