{"product_id":"the-pirate-paperback","title":"The Pirate - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Wallace\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third novel from the acclaimed author of The Pied Piper's Poison and The Resurrection Club\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeaving behind a dowdy northern winter for the warming delights of the French Riviera, Martin and his three student friends soon find their feet, turning a tidy profit as beach-bum salesmen and taking to the joys of life by the Mediterranean with relish. Martin soon gets addicted to those delights, jacks in his degree and goes down deeper into a life less ordinary - scuba-diving, bed-hopping and bar-keeping his way into corners and out again.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOut on the high seas, on board the laden 'Anne', ship's surgeon Martin is looking for the fresh start a life on the ocean wave can afford a man with a problematic past. As his captain steers his precious cargo - but not his crew - to safety through a raging, swelling storm and onward to the riches of the uncharted African coast, Martin comes to realize that down deeper lie secrets, desires and freedoms of uncanny power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe laws seem different out on the ocean, criss-crossing the Mediterranean or hugging Africa's shore, couriering yachts or cocaine, trafficking in spices or more human contraband. Living outside the dry land's dry laws is liberating, but, as Martin discovers, the lawgivers and the lawkeepers always turn up, looking for their justice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristopher Wallace, the prize-winning author of The Pied Piper's Poison and The Resurrection Club, tells an exhilarating pair of stories that reflect off each other like the sun off the sea to illuminate just how a man - with all his principles and compromises, desires and doubts - can find honour and more in piracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Law is a Scottish student who spends a summer on the French Riviera, falls into a spot of petty larceny and drug dealing, and discovers that he quite likes the respect and the tanned female flesh that his new swag and swagger gain him. Soon enough, he ditches his degree, and a new, riskier way of making money is taken on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, another Martin Law, back in the 18th century, steps onto a festering slave ship bound for the African coast... Both incarnations have a taste for danger, and their resulting adventures, conveyed in Wallace's clear and lively prose, are well told.\u003cbr\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Wallace's quiet confidence in his own writing alone would take him a long way in a face-value literary world hungry for bright young things, but his ability to unfurl a story - and to inhabit the past - mark him down as a stayer.'\u003cbr\u003eSCOTSMAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A tale of the nasty side of human nature, at it's finest.'\u003cbr\u003eFHM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChris Wallace is the author of the highly-acclaimed debut novel The Pied Piper's Poison, also published by Flamingo. He lives in Edinburgh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 14, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44248575705223,"sku":"9780007122998","price":13.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ugJ78yXNjg9780007122998.webp?v=1774345824","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-pirate-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}