Reviews

Capt. Horatio Sinbad gives his hearty endorsement to The Smuggler’s Gambit

A well-known figure on the pirate re-enactments circuit, as well as a ship-builder, author, and certified ‘Pirate-Privateer’, Captain Horatio Sinbad knows a thing or two about adventure on the high seas, as well as in coastal towns like Beaufort, North Carolina, the home port of his ship, MEKA II.

Now, he lends his hearty endorsement to The Smuggler’s Gambit, the first novel in the Adam Fletcher Series:

With the real historic seaport town of Beaufort, NC as the setting, Sara Whitford has successfully woven a fast-moving adventure of intrigue, romance, deception, and betrayal.

I will be standing by for Captured in the Caribbean, the next book in the continuing saga.

Your servant,

Captain Horatio Sinbad
Privateer, MEKA II
Beaufort, NC

Review ” The Smuggler’s Gambit “captivates the reader’s imagination”

Advance copies of The Smuggler’s Gambit circulating ahead of its March 20, 2015 release are garnering lots of good feedback so far.

Children’s Literature has written this review:

“With a seamless plot and vivid characters, this novel set in Port Beaufort, North Carolina in 1765, captivates the reader™s imagination. When seventeen-year-old Adam Fletcher chooses to recklessly defend his single mother™s reputation with his quick temper and fists, he is given two choices”jail or an apprenticeship. The delinquent™s only consolation is the hope that he will work under the flashy Richard Rasquelle, a local hero and a successful port merchant. Adam, however, lands in the care of the elder Emmanuel Rogers, a staid member of the coastal colony and only competitor of Rasquelle. It does not take long for Adam™s impetuousness to land him in a tangled web of spying, betrayal, and life-threatening danger. When Adam finally uncovers the true evil players and why his boss, Mr. Rogers, has landed in jail, he is being led away to a deserted coastal island by kidnappers. Readers will not be able to put down this historically accurate tale until they discover how Adam redeems himself and reveals the truth.”

BIBLIO: 2015, Seaport Publishing, ages 15 – 18, $14.95
REVIEWER: Krisan Murphy
FORMAT: Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-9863252-0-5