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About Richard Zacks
See more books from this AuthorWilliam Eaton, brash and defiant diplomat, is dispatched to Tripoli in 1805 by Thomas Jefferson to free 300 American hostages in what became the first U.S. covert mission to overthrow a foreign nation.
| Read Full Review of The Pirate Hunter: The True S...Kidd was no pirate, historian Zacks (History Laid Bare, not reviewed, etc.) argues in this solidly documented historical thriller, but a New York sea captain with a house, wife, and child on Wall Street, and with a special commission from King William III and other notables to hunt pirates and di...
| Read Full Review of The Pirate Hunter: The True S...The leader of that motley array of mercenaries, Muslim tribesmen, Hamet's retainers and a handful of U.S. Marines was the colorful and combative William Eaton, who led them more than 500 miles across the desert to "the shores of Tripoli."
May 09 2005 | Read Full Review of The Pirate Hunter: The True S...Aside from the tightly constructed plot, Zacks also wonderfully evokes the social and political life of the 17th century at land and at sea, and he takes turns at debunking and validating pirate folklore: while it appears the dead giveaway of a skull and crossbones made it a rare flag choice, Zac...
| Read Full Review of The Pirate Hunter: The True S...In the early nineteenth century, Tripoli ruler Bashaw Yussef uses a force of pirates to terrorize the seas (nation sponsored terrorism even in early 1800s).
Jun 01 2005 | Read Full Review of The Pirate Hunter: The True S...An aggregated and normalized score based on 106 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes