Captain in Calico, by George MacDonald Fraser
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Scottish author George MacDonald Fraser was famed for his legendary Flashman series, featuring the incorrigible knave Harry Flashman, a soldier in the imperial British army. In the colorful standalone Captain in Calico, the first novel he ever wrote but which has never been published, Fraser introduces another real-life anti-hero: Captain John Rackham, called Calico Jack, an illustrious eighteenth-century pirate who marauded the Caribbean seas. On a tranquil evening in the Bahamas, Calico Jack, long wanted on counts of piracy, makes a surprise appearance at the Governors residence and asks for a pardon for himself and his men. A deal is brokered after Jack reveals the motive for turning himself in: love. When Jack last set sail from the Bahamas two years ago, he left behind a beautiful fiance acute, and he recently learned that she remains unmarried. What the governor does not reveal to Jack is that while he was off pirating, his beloved has become betrothed to a new man the governor himself. It doesn't take long for this truth to come to light, and after embarking on a new romance with famous Irish pirate Anne Bonney, Jack is quickly transformed back into a thieving captain in calico.
Captain in Calico, by George MacDonald Fraser- Amazon Sales Rank: #3233309 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-13
- Released on: 2015-10-13
- Formats: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 7
- Dimensions: 1.00" h x 5.90" w x 5.40" l,
- Running time: 30600 seconds
- Binding: Audio CD
Review Praise for Captain in Calico:“A forgotten novel, written 60 years ago and found locked away in a fireproof safe in [Fraser’s] old study, is finally to make it into print . . . Full of the influences of the writers he loved as a boy—Rafael Sabatini, PC Wren, GA Henty, Sir Walter Scott.”—Guardian (UK)“Fraser [is] the world’s greatest storyteller, combining the best of P.G. Wodehouse, Alexandre Dumas and Great Game chronicler Peter Hopkirk . . . Captain incorporates piracy’s tried-and-true hallmarks—treasure, treachery, intermittent romance and high-seas mutiny.”—Wall Street Journal“Capt. Jack Rackham arrives on the page fearless and fully formed . . . An entertaining story laced with historical references.”—Kirkus Reviews“[An] energetic tale of piracy and peril . . . suspenseful.”—Publishers WeeklyPraise for George MacDonald Fraser:"One of the masterly comic writers of the 20th century."—Wall Street Journal"A novelistic gallop through history and imagination. . . . Fraser can easily juggle Conan Doyle and Holmes, Fleming and Bond, Wodehouse and Wooster, and Chandler and Marlowe."—Vanity Fair"A master of high jinks, an unabashedly nostalgic fan of dueling adventure and boudoir romance, a knowledgeable, witty and ebullient ransacker of historical fiction."—New York Times Book Review, on The Pyrates
About the Author George MacDonald Fraser(1925–2008) was a Scottish author best known for his famous the Flashman Papers series and the Private McAuslan stories. He served in the British Army during World War II and spent the rest of his career working for newspapers in the United Kingdom and Canada. In addition to his novels, Fraser wrote screenplays for numerous films, most notablyThe Three Musketeersand the James Bond filmOctopussy. Fraser lived on the Isle of Man, in the United Kingdom, where he died at the age of eighty-two.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. The Master's early attempt at a swashbuckler By Keith Thompson I am a huge fan of Mr. Fraser’s “Flashman” novels. (Full disclosure: I corresponded with Mr. Fraser before he died; once wrote a “Flashman” screenplay; and later wrote a novel about a real-life American Flashman very much in the master’s style.Scoundrel!: The Secret Memoirs of General James Wilkinson) So I really wanted to give “Captain in Calico” five stars. Unfortunately, I cannot. This was Mr. Fraser’s first attempt at a novel, and there’s a reason why it couldn’t find a publisher back in the 1960s. It’s not that it’s poorly written or that the story isn’t interesting—it’s simply too … conventional. The storyline and plot devices have all been done a hundred times before. It would have been a decent basis for an Errol Flynn swashbuckler in the 1930s, now it’s trite. This is not to say it’s a “bad” novel, or that I didn’t like it. But I often found myself reading it analytically—studying the sentence structure and scene transitions for insights into Mr. Fraser’s evolution as a writer—rather than being immersed in the story. When Mr. Fraser was a boy, his favorite author was Rafael Sabatini (“Captain Blood”, “The Sea Hawk”). “Calico” was his attempt to emulate his idol’s pirate novels, and as such, is not an unworthy effort. But Sabatini’s novels are now nearly a century old, and movies and television have done the plots to death. Nonetheless, I still enjoy re-reading Sabatini from time to time, and “Calico” is entertaining in the same sort of way. Just don’t expect the originality or brilliance of “Flashman”.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Before Flashy, there was Calico Jack. By Scott Blake Being a huge fan of the Flashman series, I read this book knowing that it was unlikely to be anywhere as near as good as any of the Flashman books. That proved for me to be the case here. The writing is ok, the story is reasonably interesting, and Fraser did a good job of presenting the main characters. As Fraser's children wrote in the foreword, this book was rejected by several publishers with good reason. Fraser admitted that the rejections were deserved. It's obvious that the superb character of Flashman came to be in part because of Fraser's characterization of Rackham in this book.Flashman fans won't find this book to be of the same high quality as most of the Flashman books. Those readers should find this book worth reading as part of the groundwork for the Flashman series.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Fraser's Training Wheel Novel By Ralph White Fraser's children note in the introduction that this isn't their father's best work but that they decided to publish it because he hadn't erased it. More likely they realized that even Fraser's training wheel novel would sell thousands of copies and generate incremental royalty income. Captain in Calico shouldn't qualify as a Fraser novel. He apparently wrote it in his youth before he perfected his technique and it shows. The characters are less vivid; the plot is more linear, and the story uninspiring. But this substandard Fraser novel still makes a quick, fun read. Die hard Fraser fans will have to have it but others might skip it in favor of his very good pirate novel, The Pyrates, which is the work of a professional.
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