“Newton is the real deal. I’ll read anything he writes.” –New York Times bestselling author Lee Child”Privateers rocks from beginning to explosive end.” –Robert Dugoni, #1 Wall Street Journal and Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series”Privateers will grab you by the collar and won’t let go until Charlie Newton gives the nod. Rarely have I read a book so … gives the nod. Rarely have I read a book so absorbing, so sharply written, so filled with action that it thrusts you into the real world and makes you look hard at its beauty and its heartbreak.” –Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Get Capone
Three fierce women. A ghost ship’s treasure. And a bone-chilling Caribbean warlord.
World War I rages. US marines storm Haiti’s Banque Nationale, loot $26 million in gold, then vanish. A century later, clues surface during the demolition of a Chicago racetrack, pointing to the Corazón Santo–the notorious triangle of Havana, Kingston, and Port-au-Prince. Three fierce, vibrant women reunite to hunt the treasure, hoping it will buy their survival from a long-buried, catastrophic misjudgment. They conscript a streetwise Chicago horseplayer’s help, then risk a return into the Caribbean’s mangrove jungles and mountains that have tried to kill them before. The uneasy partners are quickly swallowed in a terrifying labyrinth of shadow government and modern-day piracy where a final choice will be forced upon them: gold, survival, or redemption?
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What an ADVENTURE!! Newton’s style of writing draws you, not only into the current period of “pirating”, but into pirate life in the 1700s as well. Now Charlie, you must (please) find a way to work the protagonists of “this” novel into a continuing series of them running around the Caribbean treasure seeking. So, I will consider “Privateers”, Book 1 in the “Privateers” series. “Let it be said, let it be so!” Well done.
Adventure packed and fast action!
PRIVATEERS by Charlie Newton is an action adventure thriller that is dark and gritty with a few lighter moments. Bill Owens joins three strong and spirited women hunting for a treasure of $26 million in gold that vanished during WWI. All of them are hoping the treasure will free them from past perceived obligations. However, rebellions, modern-day piracy, and various governments place many obstacles in their way.
The main characters are compelling and I was eventually able to connect with them enough to root for them to succeed in their endeavors. Their goals were clear and their motivations were well-drawn. This book started slowly for me but the pace picks up significantly in the second half. It took me a long time to get into the book and feel anything for the main protagonist, Bill Owens. The story switches points of view occasionally and locations frequently. This book has several strong themes running through it including loan sharks, gambling, murder, assault, governments in turmoil and country rebellions, torture and much more. There are some disturbing (to me) scenes.
Overall, I am glad I read this novel and can recommend it to readers who like dark and gritty action adventure stories.
Thanks to Girl Friday Productions and Charlie Newton for a complimentary ARC of this novel and the opportunity to provide an honest review. Opinions are mine alone and are not biased in any way.
Got about 69 % done of the book and lost interest.. Not createtive writing I could see what was going to happen next. BORRRRRING !!!!
There’s a fascinating story buried in here. So much so that I wasn’t exactly sure what I thought when I finished. So, let’s take a look at what others said. Wow! It ran the gamut from amazingly awesome to artfully awful. More awesome than awful but there were items in every review that I saw and agreed with. What I liked was the intensity of the story, the detail and descriptions, the historical and fictional interplay, and the adventure. What I found difficult was the choice of language, making it slower to read than I would have liked, the blending of dialects and cultures, which made comprehension somewhat slower than expected, and the extended length of the book.
That’s the thing about an adventure. A character(s) must have a certain amount of luck or they’re dead, and there’s no more adventure. But, when they are repeatedly lucky over multiple scenes and extended situations, it’s difficult to absorb the story. Typically characters aren’t as smart as they think and their luck always runs out, so don’t push it too hard or it becomes unbelievable or conceivable.
As for me, I like pirates, treasure, mysteries and clues, spies, revolutions, double-crosses, hurricanes, period detail, and poetry. So there was a lot for me to like. If you’re a reader that “X” marks the spot, you may find, you like this a lot
This book guarantees as wild of a ride as you could possibly hope for. I don’t know how I missed this one for so long but so glad that I discovered it. Read it! You’ll be glad that you did.