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The Pyrates
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The Pyrates
George MacDonald Fraser
Now available in ebook format, ‘The Pyrates’ is a swashbuckling romp of a novel.The Pyrates is all the swashbucklers that ever were, rolled into one great Technicoloured pantomime – tall ships and desert islands, impossibly gallant adventurers and glamorous heroines, buried treasure and Black Spots, devilish Dons and ghastly dungeons, plots, duels, escapes, savage rituals, tender romance and steaming passion, all to the accompaniment of ringing steel, thunderous broadsides, sweeping film music, and the sound of cursing extras falling in the water and exchanging period dialogue. Even Hollywood buccaneers were never like this.
George MacDonald Fraser
THE PYRATES
PRAISE (#ulink_5ae6614f-0d8b-58d9-8dbe-e5e946d76584)
Praise for George MacDonald Fraser
‘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 Times
‘It’s great fun and rings true: a Highland Fling of a book’
Eric Linklater, author of The Wind on the Moon
‘Twenty-five years have not dimmed Mr Fraser’s recollections of those hectic days of soldiering. One takes leave of his characters with real and grateful regret’
Sir Bernard Fergusson, Sunday Times
‘A self-confident performance by an old hand. Mr Fraser clearly enjoys being master of such a wide and wild plot, and makes sure to leave room in it for his most famous creation, the eponymous hero of his Flashman adventure series’
New Yorker
‘Fabulous … you’ll want to stay up all night reading this one’
Washington Post
‘MacDonald Fraser falls into what these days is an exclusive group: the storyteller who can write’
D J Taylor, Sunday Times
‘Mr Fraser is a great historical novelist and in Black Ajax he is at the very top of his form. Damme if he ain’t’
Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
‘This is not a flashy novel, wearing its learning noisily. It’s rigorous, intelligent, meticulously horrifying. Wonderfully well done’
Nicci Gerrard, Observer
‘The sense of front-line danger is palpable and the smell of action is remarkable. His descriptions of the sudden violent actions are breathtaking. This is battle as it is done’
Melvyn Bragg, Evening Standard
‘This is a book as good as anything Fraser has written … A moving and penetrating contribution to the literature of the Burma campaign’
Max Hastings, Daily Telegraph
‘It’s George MacDonald Fraser in top form on the Borders, juggling lairds and outlaws in bitter battling over disputed territory.’
Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year
‘The sense of front-line danger is palpable and the smell of action is remarkable. His descriptions of the sudden violent actions are breathtaking. This is battle as it is done’
Melvyn Bragg, Evening Standard
‘Twenty-five years have not dimmed Mr Fraser’s recollections of those hectic days of soldiering. One takes leave of his characters with real and grateful regret’
Sir Bernard Fergusson, Sunday Times
DEDICATION (#ulink_37d55cf7-d6b5-503e-a2ea-ba00f04b482b)
IN MEMORY OF
The Most Reverend and Right Honourable
LANCELOT BLACKBURNE
(1658–1743)
Archbishop of York
and buccaneer
CONTENTS
Cover (#u4d442654-7c10-5ef6-ba9c-ef5f0ffd9269)
Title Page (#u58183127-c348-5a2e-a088-a4a3760741d0)
Praise (#uc86ed849-c934-5de9-86ce-0a0764d22a17)
Dedication (#u3764c02a-95f8-5e91-bf18-e3570083223d)
Book: The First (#u453561da-357f-53a5-85f8-c0e220896f67)
Chapter 1: The First (#u1ba66aba-b524-564c-85cf-8bd118bbea53)
Chapter 2: The Second (#u0f55b628-5ac5-583d-a270-1c0ac595f149)
Chapter 3: The Third (#u3daed01a-77c2-5572-9aa2-e9c0c9c83d9a)
Chapter 4: The Fourth (#u1ad8b564-ac5e-5258-8bf4-bf1e53eef7e4)
Chapter 5: The Fifth (#u5964bd72-37b9-5717-acbd-014cc470fca2)
Chapter 6: The Sixth (#u2653774b-2b36-5d3b-9e84-26c6744bbc25)
George MacDonald Fraser
Now available in ebook format, ‘The Pyrates’ is a swashbuckling romp of a novel.The Pyrates is all the swashbucklers that ever were, rolled into one great Technicoloured pantomime – tall ships and desert islands, impossibly gallant adventurers and glamorous heroines, buried treasure and Black Spots, devilish Dons and ghastly dungeons, plots, duels, escapes, savage rituals, tender romance and steaming passion, all to the accompaniment of ringing steel, thunderous broadsides, sweeping film music, and the sound of cursing extras falling in the water and exchanging period dialogue. Even Hollywood buccaneers were never like this.
George MacDonald Fraser
THE PYRATES
PRAISE (#ulink_5ae6614f-0d8b-58d9-8dbe-e5e946d76584)
Praise for George MacDonald Fraser
‘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 Times
‘It’s great fun and rings true: a Highland Fling of a book’
Eric Linklater, author of The Wind on the Moon
‘Twenty-five years have not dimmed Mr Fraser’s recollections of those hectic days of soldiering. One takes leave of his characters with real and grateful regret’
Sir Bernard Fergusson, Sunday Times
‘A self-confident performance by an old hand. Mr Fraser clearly enjoys being master of such a wide and wild plot, and makes sure to leave room in it for his most famous creation, the eponymous hero of his Flashman adventure series’
New Yorker
‘Fabulous … you’ll want to stay up all night reading this one’
Washington Post
‘MacDonald Fraser falls into what these days is an exclusive group: the storyteller who can write’
D J Taylor, Sunday Times
‘Mr Fraser is a great historical novelist and in Black Ajax he is at the very top of his form. Damme if he ain’t’
Christopher Matthew, Daily Mail
‘This is not a flashy novel, wearing its learning noisily. It’s rigorous, intelligent, meticulously horrifying. Wonderfully well done’
Nicci Gerrard, Observer
‘The sense of front-line danger is palpable and the smell of action is remarkable. His descriptions of the sudden violent actions are breathtaking. This is battle as it is done’
Melvyn Bragg, Evening Standard
‘This is a book as good as anything Fraser has written … A moving and penetrating contribution to the literature of the Burma campaign’
Max Hastings, Daily Telegraph
‘It’s George MacDonald Fraser in top form on the Borders, juggling lairds and outlaws in bitter battling over disputed territory.’
Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year
‘The sense of front-line danger is palpable and the smell of action is remarkable. His descriptions of the sudden violent actions are breathtaking. This is battle as it is done’
Melvyn Bragg, Evening Standard
‘Twenty-five years have not dimmed Mr Fraser’s recollections of those hectic days of soldiering. One takes leave of his characters with real and grateful regret’
Sir Bernard Fergusson, Sunday Times
DEDICATION (#ulink_37d55cf7-d6b5-503e-a2ea-ba00f04b482b)
IN MEMORY OF
The Most Reverend and Right Honourable
LANCELOT BLACKBURNE
(1658–1743)
Archbishop of York
and buccaneer
CONTENTS
Cover (#u4d442654-7c10-5ef6-ba9c-ef5f0ffd9269)
Title Page (#u58183127-c348-5a2e-a088-a4a3760741d0)
Praise (#uc86ed849-c934-5de9-86ce-0a0764d22a17)
Dedication (#u3764c02a-95f8-5e91-bf18-e3570083223d)
Book: The First (#u453561da-357f-53a5-85f8-c0e220896f67)
Chapter 1: The First (#u1ba66aba-b524-564c-85cf-8bd118bbea53)
Chapter 2: The Second (#u0f55b628-5ac5-583d-a270-1c0ac595f149)
Chapter 3: The Third (#u3daed01a-77c2-5572-9aa2-e9c0c9c83d9a)
Chapter 4: The Fourth (#u1ad8b564-ac5e-5258-8bf4-bf1e53eef7e4)
Chapter 5: The Fifth (#u5964bd72-37b9-5717-acbd-014cc470fca2)
Chapter 6: The Sixth (#u2653774b-2b36-5d3b-9e84-26c6744bbc25)
