Osman Necmi Gürmen transports the reader to the Mediterranean of Suleiman the Magnificent and his pirate/admirals Barbarossa and Turgut Reis: The Renegade is a novel of the Mediterranean pirates from Andalucia to Cyprus from Algeria to Constantinople at a time when wars were won or lost at sea. At the same time it is a tale of two intertwined lives of fidelity and love. It asks what is harder; acceptance of a new faith or deliverance from the old one?