In the early 1800's, a young American nation seeks to gain its own political foothold in a war-ravaged Middle East in which Christians and Muslims, English, French, Turks and Arabs all contend for power. This setting of the novel Blood Brothers is America's first foray into nation-building in the Islamic world: the 1805 attempt to put a pro-American ruler on the throne of Tripoli. America's invasion of Tripoli brings together two unlikely allies: Peter Kirkpatrick, the young, brashly confident captain of the USS Eagle, and the half-brother he never knew he had, Henry Doyle. Doyle, twenty...
In the early 1800's, a young American nation seeks to gain its own political foothold in a war-ravaged Middle East in which Christians and Muslims, En...