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Broos Campbell
Adventure novelist

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.2008

Peter Wicked

Navy Lieutenant Matty Graves is still recovering from his ordeal during the slave rebellion in the French colony of Saint-Domingue when he is ordered to Washington to answer questions about the death of his former captain. On home soil he must deal with the mystery and shame surrounding his birth, as well as the attractions of his best friend's sister. But when he's offered a...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2007

The War of Knives

When Matty Graves, acting lieutenant in the newly formed U.S. Navy, agrees to become a spy in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, he plunges headlong into a brutal world of betrayal and double-cross beyond anything he’s ever known. At first the bloody civil war between former slaves and their mixed-race overseers simply offers a way to test himself and a means to purge his guilt...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2006

No Quarter

This first book in the series introduces Matty Graves, midshipman in the early years of the United States Navy. In 1799, the young United States faces off against its former ally, France, in an undeclared naval conflict in the Caribbean. Matty is caught up in escalating violence as he serves aboard the Rattle-Snake under his drunken cousin, Billy. Matty already knows how to handle...

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About Broos

Broos Campbell is the author of the Matty Graves series of American sea adventures, No Quarter (2006), The War of Knives (2007), and Peter Wicked (2008), which are set in the Caribbean and take place during the undeclared naval war between France and the...

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Greenpeace, American Civil Liberties Union, Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders

Broos’s Favorite Books

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Roughing It, Penrod, The Mystery of the Witches' Bridge, Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls

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Broos Campbell
Adventure novelist