The English Adventurer

Name: The English Adventurer
Rating: 4.5 (845 reviews)

by Griff Hosker Book 2 in the Conquistador series.

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Thomas has escaped slavery but remains in a world where survival depends on serving men more powerful than himself. As a gunner aboard a Spanish galleon he learns the weapons and routines of ocean warfare, encountering piracy and the violent competition surrounding ships carrying valuable cargo across the Atlantic world.

His skill and luck eventually bring him into Francisco Pizarro’s expedition to Peru. Thomas joins a tiny European force entering the Inca Empire with firearms, horses and enormous ambitions, and his personal rise becomes inseparable from conquest. The novel follows an outsider moving from bondage to opportunity while revealing how quickly individual advancement can become part of a much larger act of imperial seizure.