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Chains of the Crescent Sea (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Martin Swan
Published: Mar 21 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When merchant clerk Elias Harrow boards a routine voyage along the Cornish coast, he expects trade, not capture. But when corsairs intercept his ship, he is pulled into a vast, unseen network-one where human lives are meticulously recorded, priced, and traded through ledgers rather than chains.
In the brutal yet eerily ordered slave markets of the Mediterranean, Elias discovers a chilling truth: this is not chaos-it is commerce.
Alongside Marta, a brilliant cartographer who sees patterns where others see survival, and Father Benoît, a priest whose loyalties run deeper than faith, Elias begins to uncover the hidden architecture behind the trade:
- A system where names become numbers
- Where ransom is engineered, not negotiated
- Where power lies not in force-but in paperwork
As they descend deeper into the machinery of this shadow economy-through ledger houses, covert water gates, and international intermediaries-they uncover a conspiracy that stretches far beyond the markets themselves.
At its peak stands a powerful force:
House Virelli-the unseen authority that doesn't capture people... but insures their fate.
Now, with a diplomatic hostage at the centre of a multi-layered power struggle, Elias and his allies must do the unthinkable:
Break the system from within.
But in a world ruled by ink and calculation...
Even rebellion must be accounted for.
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