Marbeck and the Privateers

by John Pilkington Book 3 in the Marbeck Mysteries series.

First published 2014

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Summer 1604. A Spanish delegation arrives in London to negotiate the peace that will end the long Anglo-Spanish War. James I wants the settlement to establish him as a peacemaker, but privateers, agents and powerful men who have profited from conflict have strong reasons to sabotage the talks.

Marbeck is assigned to protect the visitors and soon finds that the danger reaches from court politics to maritime violence. Corsairs, double agents and corrupt patrons blur the line between patriotic service and private gain, while the treaty negotiations leave little room for error. The third Marbeck novel uses the approach of the Treaty of London to show how difficult it was to dismantle the networks created by nearly two decades of war.