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Overview
In THE PYRATES, the author of the celebrated Flashman novels pays tongue-in-cheek homage to the swashbuckling books and movies that have always stirred his imagination. In these rollicking pages you'll find tall ships and desert islands; impossibly gallant adventurers and glamorous heroines; devilishly sinister cads and ghastly dungeons; improbably acrobatic duels and hair's-breadth escapes; and more plot twists than you can shake a rapier at. A deliriously entertaining combination of Errol Flynn action-adventure and Naked Gun pastiche.
Editorials
New York Times
The most wonderfully idiotic lovesong to swashbucklers ever set to Korngold trumpets. Fraser again proves himself a master.New Yorker
An unfathomable delight.Washington Post
Fabulous … You’ll want to stay up all night reading this one.From The Critics
"Fabulous . . . You'll want to stay up all night reading this one."-Washington Post"It's all there, right down to a Dead Man's Chest, cleavages that are everything they should be and characters in sea-boots who say nothing but 'Arr!' and 'Me hearty!' in a plot that is wonderfully absurd."--Financial TimesBook Details
Published
June 2, 2008
Publisher
Harper
Pages
413
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780006470175