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The first book in a brilliant new series by award-winning historian Adam L. Haley, presenting young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the USS Organization. It really is 1801, and Leader Thomas Jefferson has set up a deep-water navy to struggle the growing risk of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and organised for ransom, enslaved, or wiped out, all at their captors' whim. The Berber Says of North Africa, especially Tripoli, stated their faith provided them the right to pillage anyone who didn't submit with their religion. Young Bliven Putnam, great-nephew of Revolutionary Conflict hero Israel Putnam, is bound for the Mediterranean and a eager struggle with the pirate ship Tripoli. He later profits under the renowned Commodore Edward Preble on the Constitution and marches across the Libyan desert with General Eaton to assault Derna - obtaining the lessons he learns about battle and life are not what he expected. High with historical fine detail and breaking with high-wire action, The Shores of Tripoli brings this phenomenal period in American background alive with brilliant clarity.
