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The Pirate
- The City of Dreams, Book 2
- Narrated by: Jacob Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
Set in 11th-century Málaga, The Pirate is the second book in the City of Dreams trilogy. This fast-moving and exciting historical novel takes the listener into the medieval world of the merchants and seafarers who sail along the western coast of the Mediterranean and the pirates who terrorize them.
Early one morning, the ambitious pirate Captain al-Awar makes a lightning raid on the shipyard in Málaga and kidnaps Bakr, a master shipbuilder, and two of his workmen. Before anyone can do anything about it, they have disappeared. No one has any idea why the pirates have taken them or where they have gone, but everyone agrees that only one of two fates await them: death or slavery.
When Bakr’s wife receives the news, she is heartbroken but refuses to listen to those who say there is little hope of ever finding her husband alive. Instead, she is determined to discover where the pirates have taken him. With the entire Mediterranean to hide in, finding the kidnapped men seems to be an impossible task, but she refuses to give up and motivates her family and friends to search for him.
At the heart of this novel is the tender love story of Aisha and Bakr’s deep feelings for each other. It is the thought of her that helps to keep him alive while he is in captivity with little prospect of ever seeing his home and family again, and it is her love for him that gives her the strength to never give up hope of bringing him home.