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Galley Sergeant

出版	Independently Published, 2017-08-16
主題	Fiction / Action & Adventure
ISBN	15495126099781549512605
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=H_ZuswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Phillip is a soldier in a Mediterranean land thousands of years ago. Although born the son of a farmer, he enjoys being a soldier more. To earn more money he leaves his family and enlists as a marine on a fighting galley. The galley captain is an aristocrat too arrogant to learn his trade. The galley master is a pot-bellied, stubby legged merchant who constantly argues with the officer. The galley sergeant is a brand new marine who bribed his way into the position.In Phillip's first major sea fight the officer and sergeant are killed and Phillip finds himself instantly promoted to galley sergeant. A new officer is posted to captain the galley, and under him things improve. Enemy galleys are captured and the Cats-Head crew gets part of the bounty paid for their capture. Phillip is sent on an ill-fated expedition to capture an enemy port. Captured he becomes a slave. Now he is a rower, chained to a bench and worked to exhastion. In a sea fight his galley is rammed and sunk, but he manages to survive.On land Phillip is captured and sold back into slavery. He is now one of the rowers for a king who builds and sells war galleys, while secretly trying to develop terrible weapons. One night the slaves break out of their compound and attack the king's palace. Seizing a boat Phillip and some others sail for home. One of the freed slaves is an officer and takes Phillip to his home. There Phillip mixes with the aristocracy for the first time, and finds there is a woman lusting after him. Phillip goes to his home and finds his brother has taken both Philips wife, and his position in the family.His squadron leader promotes him. Turning his back for good on his family and farm Phillip sets out to make a career of fighting at sea.