Mark Keating est un auteur de fiction historique dont l'œuvre plonge les lecteurs dans l'Âge d'Or de la piraterie dans les Caraïbes. Son écriture privilégie l'aventure et la précision historique, omettant consciemment les éléments surnaturels ou les récits romancés. L'approche de Keating se concentre sur la création d'une représentation vivante et authentique de l'époque et de ses exploits maritimes.
In "CROSS OF FIRE," pirate Olivier Levasseur has seized the Virgin of the Cape, a ship carrying a massive gold cross. Patrick Devlin pursues Levasseur across the Indian Ocean, facing threats from the Royal Navy, old pirate foes, and his vengeful former master, John Coxon. Adventure awaits in Africa and the Seychelles.
The break-out novel in possibly the best historical series since Sharpe.
Rich in historical insight and told in a dramatic and engaging voice, this is a superb evocation of the period with a series character to rival Sharpe.
Sold by his father for four guineas, Patrick Devlin knows just how cheap life is in a world of slavery, violence and greed. Devlin is taken as a servant by Captain John Coxon of the Royal Navy, whose job in this uneasy peace time is to protect the stupendous wealth of the East India Trading Company. But when pirates sink Coxon's ship, Devlin willingly trades his servile existence for their life of dangerous liberty. And when he sets off in pursuit of a secret cargo of French bullion, it is Coxon - disgraced and hungry for revenge - who is despatched to bring his former dog to heel. Fight for Freedom was published in hardback under the title The Pirate Devlin.
Orphaned in infancy in Ireland and raised in rural Berkshire before his aunt sent him packing to boarding school, George Eccles thought he knew enough about insecurity, fear and disappointment when he finds quiet contentment working in a joinery in rural England. When he manages to finish writing a horror novel, should he be delighted or distrustful when a publisher tells him it will be a bestseller? Has life prepared George for the insecurity, fear and disappointment of fame? Or will his adult life become another nightmare in which nothing, not even love, is what it seems? Is he wearing his art on his sleeve, his sources of inspiration waiting in the wings to expose him as a plagiariser, or has paranoia shaken his confidence in his originality? Colourful and intriguing, Infinitesimal Gradations takes readers on a wild and scary ride that tells of fame, the price of fame - and of what lies beyond.