TY - BOOK AU - George MacDonald Fraser TI - The Pyrates SN - 9781585748006 AV - PR6056.R287 U1 - 823.914 PB - Lyons Press KW - Humor KW - Historical Fiction KW - Adventure N2 - 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 ER -