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The Barbary Captive
Paperback
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Martin Swan
Published: Oct 20 2025
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Cornwall, 1625.
A quiet fishing village sleeps beneath a lavender sky - unaware that black sails are approaching from the horizon. Before dawn, the sea will come not to feed Mousehole... but to steal from it.
Thomas Hale, fisherman, husband, father of three, is torn from his home by Barbary corsair slavers and dragged across the sea to Algiers - the heart of a ruthless empire built on chains. Sold like cargo, forced into brutal labour beneath a foreign sun, he refuses to surrender his name, his faith, or the memory of his wife waiting across the water.
But survival is not enough. He must return. Or die as an Englishman.
Across deserts and slave markets, storms and betrayal, allies appear in the unlikeliest of souls - a disgraced English renegade, a fearless Moorish healer, and monks who risk death to buy back the stolen.
Yet as Thomas fights for escape, another battle is stirring - in London itself.
For the night the corsairs came for Mousehole... was not the end - but the warning.
And now England begins to wake.
Based on real, forgotten history - a powerful tale of faith, endurance, and the turning of a nation's fate.
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