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The once-popular pirate-adventure genre has experienced something of a downturn since the heyday of Rafael Sabatini and Errol Flynn. Chris Bunch ends the slump with the swashbuckling fantasy Corsair, a coming-of-age novel about Gareth Radnor, an honorable young man who goes to sea after Linyati slavers kill his parents. When Gareth finds himself serving aboard a Sarosian ship bound to transport slaves for the mysterious Linyati, he joins with other crewmen to seize control of the vessel--and finds himself the captain of a pirate ship which preys on slave ships and frees the human cargo. His cunning and implacable attacks soon have him pursued by all the gunships and sorcerers of the Linyati, for the slavers will do everything in their considerable power to destroy Gareth Radnor. --Cynthia Ward
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For years, the Linyati slavers have raided the coasts of Saros with impunity. But now swashbuckling captain Gareth Radnor has taken command of the carrack Steadfast...and of Destiny itself. For the exiled young sailor seeks vengeance against the slavers who murdered his family. A man of fearless daring, Gareth is joined by a motley crew-clever Knoll N'b'ry, strongman Thom Tehidy, the giant sorcerer Labala, and the beautiful, rebellious Lady Cosyra. Together, they become pirates against evil, seawolves attacking the Linyati, even defying their own King's truce. Then Gareth makes a discovery that turns his crusade into a cause more important than glory, wealth, or retribution: The Linyati aren't human.... THE SEA HORROR A cabin door on the deck above the fighters slammed open, and a nightmare burst out. It was an enormous, tailless lizard, half as tall as a man, with a long, fanged head like a crocodile. Its skin was large, rainbow-hued scales, and it carried a forward-curving sword in each four-fingered claw. It moved impossibly fast, leaping down the ladder, slashing into pirates, spinning away from counterthrusts and lunges, squealing all the while. Gareth shot at it with one of his pistols, missed, and, guts clenching, went for the monster with his sword...
Corsair,Chris Bunch,Aspect,0446609463,Fantasy - General,Fiction,Fiction - Fantasy,Science fiction,Fiction / Fantasy / General
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