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The guy who ran the S_ilk Road and then got framed by the Feds and will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. A true pirate, and a hero to boot.

Cities of the Red Nights

>>15320377

is this any good? been on my list for a good bit now.

>>15320168
bumping for interest

>>15320168
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>>15321033
I am all about one piece, but i am looking for something like Blood Meridian but in the water

>>15321180
Pirate Latitudes was fun.

Good luck with Blood Meridian innawater.

>>15320270
redpill me on the framing part.

>>15321033
my man

>>15320168
even though it was written for children, Treasure Island is pure kino

>I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow—a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:

>“Fifteen men on the dead man's chest—
>Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”


>in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appeared, called roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.

stinky pete or pal. is the most fame from most lit

>>15321180
>>15321703

Yeah, the definitive pirate epic has yet to be written. What we need is Moby Dick crossed with Blood Meridian.

Imagine a combined Captain Ahab and Judge Holden, but instead of revenging himself on a whale and/or scalping Apaches he's chasing you. Yes, YOU, humble merchant ship captain just trying to make a living. And he wants your cargo. All of it.

my pirate novel about 16th century swedish privateers fighting the hansa(WIP)

The other main advantage of PIRATES is you can have them in space.

Truly they are one of the universal stories.