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In a life stranger than any fiction Grace OMalley daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander but her three decades of plundering kidnapping murder and mayhem came to a close in 1586 when she was captured and sentenced to hang

Saved from the scaffold by none other than Queen Elizabeth herselfanother powerful woman in a mans worldGraces life took another extraordinary turn when it was rumored she had become intelligencer for the queens spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham Was this the price of her freedom

Judith Cook explores this and other questions about the life and times of this remarkable woman in a fascinating thrilling and impeccably researched book