Pirates

A story by H J Macey. E-mail h.macey@sky.com
Working title, 'Pirates.'
Synopsis
This story is set in Perth Westen Australia in 1963 and is of out of work legal professionals, who applies for a driver-secretary job in a seedy magazine. They are propelled into a world of a three hundred your old league of Pirates, that was formed to fight slavery. Over the intervening three hundred years, they have fought for the rights of persecuted people. Their leader is a three-hundred-year-old Dorean Gray. Who back in 1663 was captured by Madagascan slaving pirates, when at the age of ten he was sailing with his father and mother to India, for the East Indian trading company.
He gets marooned on a strange volcanic island, whos radiation gave the fruits and vegetables growing their longevity properties. This prolongs the life to those that eat them, where one year of ageing is actually ten years in normal peoples lives.
Two hundred year ago, Pedro Martinez died in a sea battle, now the photo of Peter Martin has been sent in with a job application. It's an uncanny likeness to Pedro Martinez, and the thought of reincarnation is razed, by his old allies and friends.
Peter Marten is thirty-nine whereas Pedro Martinez died at the physical age of nineteen in the last two hundred years he would have aged twenty years, giving him the physical age of thirty-nine.
Isabella Pedro's lover was sixteen when Pedro died, she now has the physical age of twenty-six. She has never stopped loving Pedro and when Peter is taken to her they fall in love again.
This book is in progress and is eleven chapters long = 17,903 words long.