Books in the Pirate series

Corsair by Tim Severin is the first swashbuckling adventure in the Pirate series. 1677. On a late-summer's evening, two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. Seventeen-year-old Hector Lynch wakes to the sound of a pistol shot as the Barbary corsairs raid his village, and he and his sister are snatched. Separated from each other, Hector is sold at auction in Algiers, and thrown into a bewildering world where life is cheap and only the quick-witted survive.In North Africa, Hector befriends fellow captive Dan, a Miskito Indian from the Caribbean, and the two men convert to Islam to escape the horrors of the slave barracks - only to become victims of the deadly warfare of the Mediterranean. Serving aboard a Turkish ship, their vessel is sunk at sea and by a savage twist of fortune they are chained to the oar bench of a French galley.Desperate to find his sister, Hector finally stumbles on the chilling truth of her fate when he and Dan are shipwrecked on the coast of Morocco.

Buccaneer by Tim Severin is the second swashbuckling adventure in the Pirate series. Sailing across the Caribbean, Hector Lynch falls into the hands of the notorious buccaneer, Captain John Coxon, who mistakes him for the nephew of Sir Thomas Lynch, Governor of Jamaica. Hector encourages the error so that his friends Jacques and Dan can go free. Coxon then delivers Hector to Sir Henry Morgan, a bitter enemy of Governor Lynch, expecting to curry favour with Morgan, but is publicly humiliated when the deception is revealed. From then on, Hector has a dangerous enemy, and Coxon seeks to revenge himself on Hector . . .Befriended by Jezreel, an ex-prize fighter, Hector meets up again with his friends Jacques and Dan, and the four comrades join the great buccaneer raid, which marches through the jungle along the Panama coastline. But their expedition is soon interrupted - with deadly consequences.

Novel by Damian Forest Light"The Pirate Dunn: A Memory"Each chapter is a different phase of the pirate's life, the story progressing slowly; Thinking he is insane, Timothy Dunn tries to differentiate between the world in his life and the one in his dreams. His behavior sends him into an institution, but somehow his rent remains paid. Trying to piece together his life, Timothy Dunn decides to get a job and live a normal life, until he realizes that the dream world of him serving as a first mate to a pirate captain cousin of his on the ocean, is actually real. The Pirate storms and travails the high seas with his cousin, Captain Kenneth Dunn. The first mate and he, travel through time working for the League of Science, occasionally being brought in to the prison of the time, or the asylum. They are time travelers wandering and sailing; Through mayhem of monsters, ghosts, vampires and pirates, sea monsters and dragons, the crew and their compatriots, a full crew of female pirates on a sister ship, attempt to find the Fountain of Youth, in this tale of heroic adventure.A time-traveling pirate and his cousin, Captain Dunn work for a league of scientists; a part of a time-traveling union and league of aristocrats. They form a time-traveling organization, the 'League of Science' direct the transactions of the pirate as he travels through the seas; until he becomes indebted to them by attempting to interfere with the fall of Atlantis, an ancient civilization. To save The Pirate's girlfriend, a nurse whom he met while a patient at St. Peter's Mental Asylum, the time travelers expend no gory detail, fighting zombies, vampires, and dragons of great fury. They battle sea monsters and of course, other pirates, to find the Fountain of Youth. Captain Dunn's personal quest is to find the real fountain, but his sidetrack into the past to avoid a sea monster chasing he and his ship leads his crew and vessel through a tour of the Ancient Island of Atlantis. During the time travel, the wrong end of the time warp has brought them to the exact time the island is set to sink; after exploding and evenly destroying itself. With the aid of others in distress, they attempt to escape unscathed from the collapse of an ancient island, before embarking on a journey towards the actual living Fountain of Youth. What they encounter is too much even for this band of pirates, who are accompanied by a sister ship with a female crew; but become indebted to the science league for their role in history. In order for history to be documented, the crew is separated and love, jealousy, and adventure drive everyone off of their own planks of destiny, so to speak. Will it end with a happy ending, who knows the destiny of a time-traveling pirate who lives in a mental institution half of his life and out on the high seas, the other half? A provocative tale of Ghosts, Zombies, UFO's, Vampires, the Undead, Plagues, Disasters, Real and Contrived History, Dragons, Sea Monsters, The Fall of Atlantis, appearances by Black Beard, Red Beard, and Blue Beard. Also, Robin of the Woods Near Loxley, Arthur and His Knights, the Merry Men, Merlin, Hercules and The Legendary Fountain of Youth feature in this dramedy satire of the ages. It is surely a provocation towards monsters, pirates, science fiction and suspense, as well as a light touch of horror, satirically meant to amuse the reader and bring it to a world of thrills and piracy at its finest.

Sea Robber by Tim Severin is the third swashbuckling adventure in the Pirate series. Ambushed by a gang of hardened sea robbers headed for the South Sea, Hector Lynch, pirate and fugitive, must navigate their vessel on a nightmarish journey through the stormy seas off Cape Horn. There Hector uncovers the macabre and eerie remains of a small warship entombed on an ice float. Her only crew are two skeletons - the unfortunate captain and his dog, both frozen to death.When his ruthless shipmates abandon him in Peru, Hector learns from the dead captain's brother that Maria, the young Spanish woman who stole his heart and whose false testimony saved him from the gallows, is now living on the remote Ladrones, the Thief Islands, on the far side of the Pacific. Hector's epic voyage to reach Maria will bring him face to face with a Japanese warlord who submits trespassers to his island to a deadly duel and a naked Stone Age tribe who file their teeth to sharp points and sail boats that outpace the fastest galleon.

Privateer by Tim Severin is the fourth swashbuckling adventure in the Pirate series.Hector Lynch and his companions are in the Caribbean, diving to plunder a wreck on the notorious Vipers reef, when they are spotted by a passing Spanish ship. To prevent news of their activities getting out, they cripple the Spanish vessel by burning her sails - an act of piracy - and then head for their base in Tortuga. There Hector's wife Maria awaits, for she and Hector are planning a better life for themselves - this time on the right side of the law.But a chance encounter at sea means that Hector and his comrades run afoul of Laurens de Graff - renowned swashbuckling mercenary captain - now in command of a royal French frigate. Slipping from de Graff's clutches, Hector and his friends are cast away on the tiny desert island, Salt Tortuga. Hector tries desperately to make his way back to Maria, meanwhile she has decided to undertake the hazardous journey to find him. Hector's adventures and Maria's tenacity lead them towards Port Royal in Jamaica - known as the wickedest city on earth. And Hector, accused of piracy, once more enters a world he had sworn to leave behind.