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Prize Law: Piracy. Justice. No Mercy for Either.
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ISBN13: 9798170244041
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Twelve prizes taken clean this season. Honest work, honestly recorded - Quartermaster Edmund Thorne has the ledger to prove it.
What Thorne doesn't know, what none of the Fair Return's crew knows, is that somewhere in London weeks ago, a treaty was signed. The war that made their work legal ended on paper before it ended in truth, and the thirteenth prize they take without knowledge of that fact makes them, retroactively and unanimously, criminals.
What Thorne doesn't know, what none of the Fair Return's crew knows, is that somewhere in London weeks ago, a treaty was signed. The war that made their work legal ended on paper before it ended in truth, and the thirteenth prize they take without knowledge of that fact makes them, retroactively and unanimously, criminals.
Judge Ambrose Sedgwick knows. He's built a careful career on the principle that the law means something consistent, or it means nothing at all - and he's sailing toward Widow's Cay with marines and a warrant, prepared to prove it.
What Sedgwick doesn't expect is a crew that governs itself by written Articles more genuinely democratic than the courts that will judge them. A captain who commands through trust rather than fear. A quartermaster whose faith in fair process was broken once already, by a system that punished him for telling the truth. And a question that will not stay comfortably theoretical once it reaches his own bench: when a law changes without warning, who actually pays for the gap between what a man did and what he knew?
Prize Law is a novel about the distance between legal and just, and about what it costs - on both sides of the gavel - to close it honestly. This edition includes a bonus novella, The Bristol Ledger, telling the story of the fraud that shaped Thorne long before he ever set foot aboard a pirate ship. Piracy. Justice. No Mercy for Either.
What Sedgwick doesn't expect is a crew that governs itself by written Articles more genuinely democratic than the courts that will judge them. A captain who commands through trust rather than fear. A quartermaster whose faith in fair process was broken once already, by a system that punished him for telling the truth. And a question that will not stay comfortably theoretical once it reaches his own bench: when a law changes without warning, who actually pays for the gap between what a man did and what he knew?
Prize Law is a novel about the distance between legal and just, and about what it costs - on both sides of the gavel - to close it honestly. This edition includes a bonus novella, The Bristol Ledger, telling the story of the fraud that shaped Thorne long before he ever set foot aboard a pirate ship. Piracy. Justice. No Mercy for Either.
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