The Pirates, Michael Creighton book review

As I had imagined, the book did meet my expectations. This book, like the book on the pirates of the sea, is the fruit of research

In-depth about the period and focusing on the pirates in particular and here, I did not put the book from my hands until I finished ....

Many adventures, action, strategies, maneuvers, thinking, creativity. It's all in Captain Charles Hunter,

The Pritvir sent under the patronage of the governor to rob a Spanish treasure ship.

The friveteer was the nickname of an armed ship, owned and under private command, operating in wartime against hostile merchant ships.

Their main activity was in the 16th to 18th centuries, although the Pratvirim existed in the Middle Ages. There's actually a word laundromat, and that was it

Pirates, pirates for all intents and purposes, but as opposed to pirates (who were hanged and not "legal") the frivates were approved, stamped

From the British government. They would receive a letter of authorization permitting them to seize enemy merchant ships and loot them when the booty was stolen

Was divided into various parts of the King and the Primate and his crew. Privatirism was banned by international agreement in 1856. (Information according to page 8

In the book).

Captain Hunter conceived a plan to take over a Spanish ship, which had little chance of success, but he planned a genius plan.

He gathers his team one by one, each one talented in his field, and there is also a Jew on the team, who prepares explosives and everything related to explosions

He also takes a woman to the crew, who is known as a woman but behaves like a man, dressed like a man in Port Royal and everyone knows she is a woman but they treat

To her as a man. She has hawk eyes and she is the observant who sits on the mast and guides the helmsman, who is also chosen carefully.

The team goes through various adventures, dangers from humans and from nature (hurricane) when reality exceeds all imagination (though Hunter's fight and his team

In "Monster" with giant arms and a green and glowing color, they seem like fantasy sailors. I have no idea if there are huge octopuses of this magnitude.

probably not. But I suppose that the description of this struggle is also part of the atmosphere of the time, in which sailors described monsters of different water, such as Loch Ness.

The writing is sweeping, there is a descent into detail, with a lot of tension and adventure.

At the end of the story there is an afterword what has happened to everyone since the clever robbery, which has not been like it for 100 years!

Hunter died in 1670 of pneumonia, leaving behind a memoir that was kept at Cambridge College. His grave reads:

Here he rested

Chas. Hunter, Captain

1670-1627

Adventurer and honest seaman

Beloved among his compatriots

In the New World

conductor

The names of the captain and others may be based on frivatiers with other names.

Writer Creighton is also an esteemed author, who among other books has written Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Seed and his thirteen books

Adapted to movies. This book, which was given a temporary name, was discovered after his death, as a complete manuscript and ready for print in 2008.

Throughout the book, Captain Hunter appeared to me as the most famous player in the Caribbean Pirates Johnny Depp,

Who played Captain Jack Sparrow, and his image never came out of my mind.