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Birds Of Prey (The Courtneys)

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His hair, tied with a thong behind his head, spilled from under his cap and glistened blue-black in the early sunlight. At first he moved stiffly, his muscles cramped and chilled after the long vigil, but he soon warmed up and swung down lithely. Races and swashbuckling on the high seas differs greatly from some of the past narratives, but it is this unique approach that keeps readers coming back. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps.

Smith opens this collection of adventures in exciting fashion, leaving nothing to chance as he entertains his readers. With loose connections to the Knights Templar, Hal sails the seas to avenge his father's death and uphold the Templar traditions. I’m kind of wondering at this point why I slept for so long on Smith’s books as they are thoroughly entertaining and, if not classic literature, written well. During an extended captivity, we hear endlessly about how his youth is shed and his muscular development while working in the quarry.He watched the bird fold its wings and plunge downwards, and each bird that followed began its dive at the same point in the air, to strike the dark water in a burst of lacy foam. Under his father’s tutelage he had studied it so that he knew the colour, the taste and run of it, each eddy and surge. These documents were issued to privateer captains, essentially giving them permission to attack any antagonistic vessel, port, town, or city. I heartily recommend this sizable piece of action to fellow historical fiction lovers, but just be warned that I really am not playing up the amount of times someone gets killed horribly or the dreaded beast with two backs makes an appearance, so if you don’t like that kind of stuff maybe just read a Cadfael book or somethin’.

The numbers of men packed into each vessel never failed to amaze Hal when he saw them in a mass like this. Today the Dutchmen will come,’ he said aloud, and felt the excitement and dread throb beneath his ribs. Henry Courtney, Sir Francis’s only son, accompanies him on this endeavor to the far sides of the earth. They moved sluggishly – they had been too long in these warm southern waters, and their timbers were infested with the Toredo worm. yours isn't the stuff of literary legend, but usually you buckle a *mean* swash and cause images of Erroll Flynn to dash around your reader's head (thanks for that, BTW).

The sound of that mysterious name on his own lips raised goose pimples along his arms and made the thick dark hair prickle on the back of his neck. A century and a half ago, by Papal Bull Inter Caetera of 25 September 1493, the Line had been drawn down the mid-Atlantic, north to south, by Pope Alexander VI to divide the world between Portugal and Spain. After four years away from service, master mariner Sir Hal Courtney prepares for his latest and most dangerous voyage – a death or glory mission in the name of Empire and the crown. By the time of his death in 2021 he had published 49 books and had sold more than 140 million copies. Sir Francis Courtney, his son Hal and their crew are carried around the southern tip of the African colonies by the good ship Lady Edwina, licensed to attack and seize the treasure-laden ships of the Dutch East India company.

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