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government paid these powers for treaties to reduce. Beginning in Paris, the dashing Gage, with the help of real-life scientists and engineers, must not only rescue his former lover Astiza he must also save the three-year-old son he didn't know he had. shipping was subject to capture by the Barbary powers in North Africa. In 1802, this death ray could tip the balance of power in the Mediterranean, and Ethan must stop the pirates from using it against American, English, and French fleets. For the best part of three centuries the corsairs or pirates from the Barbary coasts of North Africa dominated the Western and Central Mediterranean.
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When James I sent a fleet to demand the return of Christian captives (unsuccessfully), the horrified public learned that more than 25,000 white slaves were held in the Barbary states pirate kingdoms stretching from Egypt to the port of Sallee. During the roiling era of Napoleon's reign, American adventurer Ethan Gage is in a desperate race with the Barbary pirates - and with his Egyptian Rite nemesis Aurora Somerset - to rediscover and control the mirror of Archimedes: an ancient super-weapon that legend contends burned a Roman fleet. On one occasion, the Barbary pirates sailed away with the entire congregation of a Penzance church.