AOS Privateer Fiction
 During the Age of Sail a privateer, also known as a Letter of Marque, was a private vessel authorised by a government to attack and capture an enemies ships in time of war. Books which feature such vessels will be very similar to naval fiction. This listing is for novels where the primary ship featured is a privateer. |
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- By: Michael Aye
Wrongly accused, persecuted, and scarred, young Cooper Cain was driven from his home in shame. He took to the sea where he became the Pyrate. He fell in love, but what could he offer his woman if he continued his life as a pirate? Fate smiled on Cooper Cain. For his brave deeds he was given a pardon by the Crown. When the war came, he fought with his adopted country, the United States. As a privateer he became feared. After the war ended, he left the sea for a farm. He had a wife and a child on the way. Pirates then started raiding again. Torture and murder were once again on the high seas! They had to be stopped. Who better to hunt down a pirate than the Pyrate? He becomes The Hunter.
- Title: The Hunter
- Series: The Pyrate
- First Published by: Bitingduck Press
- First Published Format: Kindle
- First Published Date: 6 September 2022
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- By: Michael Aye
Cooper Cain was driven from his home in England in Book 1 and found his calling as a pirate captain in the Caribbean. Now an adopted son of the newly formed United States, Cain leaves piracy to become a privateer, raiding British vessels attempting to supply troops at the start of the war of 1812.
Follow Cooper Cain's adventures in Letter of Marque, the second book in The Pyrate series.
- Title: Letter of Marque
- Series: The Pyrate
- First Published by: Bitingduck Press
- First Published Format: Kindle
- First Published Date: 14 February 2019
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- By: Gerry Garibaldi
Wren learns that his fresh promotion to midshipman is both a blessing and a bane, giving him his first taste of authority and the grating pressures that accompany it. The Phoenix has been dispatched to Surat, presidency of the British East India Company. Its mission: To sail into the Narmada River, deep into the exotic, black heart of India, to discover the fate of a Company factory there, with which all contact has been lost. On the way they must engage a small but deadly fleet of Malabar pirates who prey on the towns and villages along the river, led by the bold and brilliant commander Kunjali. In the course of this quest, Wren comes to confront a dark, unexpected fate of his own.
- Title: The River of Sin
- Series: The Diaries of Daniel Wren, Privateer
- First Published by: CreateSpace
- First Published Format: PB
- First Published Date: 2 February 2018
- ISBN-10: 1979876835
- ISBN-13: 978-1979876834
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- By: Brad Koch
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He meets with his grandson and, because of the boy’s interest, tells him the exciting story of his life. It is a story of gold, silver, diamonds and pearls. The grandson, James Washington Butler, goes onto have many exciting and challenging responsibilities of his own because of his knowledge of foreign languages. |
The eldest member of the Butler clan returns from India to New York after having been gone from the United States for over twenty years. He had been forced out by the new sultan who had confiscated his property with its diamond operation.- Title: Privateers of 1812
- Series: The Butler Family Chronicles
- First Published Format: Kindle
- First Published Date: 8 January 2017
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- By: Marsha Canham
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A rip roaring high seas adventure set in Elizabethan England when dashing privateers known as sea hawks banded together to guard their country and their queen against the Invincible Armada being amassed by Spain. Simon Dante, the Pirate Wolf, meets his match in battle and in love when he crosses swords with Isabeau Spence. Together they join forces with Sir Francis Drake on a daring attack on Cadiz. |
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- Title: Across A Moonlit Sea
- Series: Pirate Wolf Trilogy
- First Published by: Bantam Doubleday Dell
- First Published Format: PB
- First Published Date: 1 June 1996
- ISBN-10: 0440217857
- ISBN-13: 9780440217855