In the crypt of an isolated monastery in Kythira, a precious manuscript is forgotten through the centuries, recording the adventurous and bloody journey of the pirate brothers Barbarossa, Hayreddin, and Aruz. Starting from a humble fishing village in Lesbos, Paleokipo Geras, the two brothers will traverse the seas. Hayreddin will become the most notorious pirate of the Mediterranean, tough and ruthless. His reputation will lead him to the court of the Sultan in Constantinople. He will become the beylerbeyi of the Aegean and the Sultan of Algiers...
From the dark government buildings of Serenissima to the magnificent palaces of Algiers, historical truth weaves with myth in an intoxicating storm of images, passions, and revelations, transporting us to a wild and captivating era where Greeks and Turks, Christians and Muslims, Venetians and Genoese, Spaniards and French all dance together the dizzying dance of piracy, massacre, and slave trade.
Aruz and Hayreddin Barbarossa, Andrea Doria, Suleiman the Magnificent, Francisco of France, Isabella of Spain, with their rivalries, hatreds, loves, passions, crimes, and their military genius, abandon the dusty shelves of History and guide us, like in an exciting cinematic film, through the dark years of the terror of the seas and piracy...