Le souffle de la grande aventure. Aux yeux des uns, il est Yann de Kermeur, noble breton au passé obscur. Pour les autres, c'est L'Épervier, corsaire prestigieux. Pour tous, il est redoutable. Mais accusé d'un meurtre qu'il n'a pas commis, pourchassé, traqué, il se retrouve seul face à la haine de ses accusateurs... L'Épervier devra déployer ses ailes pour entraîner ses adversaires sur son terrain de prédilection : l'océan et ses fureurs.

7 tomes (série finie) ( )

I obtained this one in e-book format. It is a very different reading experience as the tablet I read it from did not present the full page format in a manner that is legible but reduced from what a paper album would be.

So I had to zoom in on each or two or three of the story vignettes.
A bit at times like zooming in when in a museum on the details of a painting.

What is astounding is that Pellerin's work gains from this treatment as it is so well detailed.
Example when a bird's eye view of a fortress by the sea shows two scenes of the action unfolding at the same time.
The hero has lots of adventures and is mistaken for having committed a crime.

There is also a red herring in that the elderly assassinated reveals that the murderers also robbed his ancestor of the pre-Colombian secrets of a statuette giving power to the one who owns it. So picture a French Privateer transformed instantly in an 18th century Sam Spade.

A local britons mob nearly hangs him but he escapes narrowly, while members of the local gentry steal his boat and torture his crew.

Not the first time in literature that a boat captain is victim of an injustice-thinking Edmond Dantes in Dumas' Monte Cristo.

Excellent 18th century story.

Pellerin is a master story teller and volume one ends on a cliffhanger which leads to wanting to read no. 2. ( )