An Inception of Piracy is the story of Giovanni Bartolli, the son of a wealthy Genoan merchant, who finds himself pressed into the English navy. The story follows his misadventures through the abuse heaped upon him by sadistic superiors, shipwrecks, naval battles, a wrongful imprisonment and eventually, his emergence as a pirate during the "Golden Age" of piracy.

It is also the story of how a man responds to injustice, how chivalrous actions can still be made amid the most horrific circumstances, how the loss of everything a man holds dear affects him and the how every man strives to take control of his own destiny.

An Inception of Piracy is an historically accurate novel of high seas adventure with a plot that will keep you guessing and characters you will come to love.