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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Historical adventure fiction

THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI

James L. Haley

Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates

This is the first novel in a brilliant new series by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. It is 1801, and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy on the Barbary Coast, as civilians are regularly kidnapped and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed by brigands from the Berber States of North Africa. Young Bliven Putnam is bound for the Mediterranean and for a desperate battle. He marches across the Libyan desert to assault the port of Derna—discovering there that the lessons he learns about war, and life, are not what he expected.

It is 1801, and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy on the Barbary Coast, as civilians are regularly kidnapped and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed by brigands from the Berber States of North Africa.

Young Bliven Putnam is bound for the Mediterranean and for a desperate battle. He marches across the Libyan desert to assault the port of Derna—discovering there that the lessons he learns about war, and life, are not what he expected.

Rich with historical detail and cracking with high-wire action, THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI brings this amazing period in history to life.

James L. Haley is an award-winning historian and author of numerous books on Texas and Western history, as well as several novels, including The Buffalo War, which has been in print for thirty-nine years; the multiple award-winning biography Sam Houston; and Wolf: The Lives of Jack London. Haley’s work has garnered many accolades, including two Spur Awards (2002 and 2011) from the Western Writers of America. THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI is the first thrilling installment in his new nineteenth-century naval fiction series.

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Book Published 2016-11-01 by Putnam
Book Published 2016-11-01 by Putnam

Comments

It’s a rare novelist who has a commanding grasp of history, and it’s a rare historian who has an intuitive understanding of how to bring fictional characters to life. Fortunately for us readers of the Shores of Tripoli—and (please!) of the next book about Lieutenant Bliven Putnam—James L. Haley fuses historian and novelist into a spellbinding storytelling whole. There could be no better captain to sail this ship.

Historical fiction has to work simultaneously as history and fiction. Rarely do the stars align, but in this case they have. The Shores of Tripoliis a terrific novel, elegantly written, and grounded in first-rate research.

“WithThe Shores of Tripoli, James L. Haley has taken the naval adventure genre to places it has not gone before, filled with strong, believable characters who nearly jump of the page, deeply researched details of life both here and abroad, from rural Litchfield, Connecticut to the ruins of Cyrene at Durna, and a powerful, sweeping view of one of the seminal events in the early history of our country. For the first time, we have an American hero to cheer in young Bliven Putnam, and we witness this country’s incredible history through his eyes.The Shores of Tripoliis both a historical novel of impeccable detail, as well as a rollicking good time.” —Brian Kilmeade, author ofThomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

“Page-turning action…Haley’s deck-by-deck tour of the legendary frigate is fascinating.” —Kirkus Reviews