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Stephan Talty
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Stephan Talty is the author of MULATTO AMERICA: AT THE CROSSROADS OF BLACK AND WHITE CULTURE (HarperCollins 2003). His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, the Chicago Review, Men's Journal, the Irish Times and many other publications. A magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College, he has worked as a critic at Time Out New York and an editor at Details Magazine. Talty grew up in Buffalo, New York and now lives in Baldwin, NY. He has traveled extensively in the Caribbean and written about it for O Magazine and other publications.

EMPIRE OF BLUE WATER: HENRY MORGAN AND THE PIRATES WHO RULED THE CARIBBEAN WAVES US rights to Crown.

SIMON & SCHUSTER (31 Mar 07)

Henry Morgan challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades -- and brought it to its knees. A twenty-year-old Welshman, he arrived in the New World in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English became legend. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and sea changed the fates of kings and queens. His victories helped shape the destiny of the New World.

Morgan gathered disaffected English and European sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, cutthroats and sociopaths and turned them into the fiercest and most feared army in the western hemisphere. Sailing out from the English stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, 'the wickedest city in the New World', Morgan and his men terrorized Spanish merchant ships and devastated the cities where great riches in silver, gold, and gems lay waiting to be sent to the King of Spain. His last raid, a daring assault on the fabled city of Panama, helped break Spain's solitary hold on the New World for ever.

Awash with bloody battles, political intrigues, and a cast of characters more compelling, bizarre and memorable than any found in a Hollywood swashbuckler -- including the notorious pirate L'Ollonais, the soul-tortured King Philip IV of Spain, and Thomas Modyford, the crafty English governor of Jamaica EMPIRE OF BLUE WATER brilliantly re-creates the passions and the violence of the age of exploration and empire. What's more, it chillingly depicts the apocalyptic natural disaster that finally ended the pirates' dominion.

ISBN: 0 7432 7539 X

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