The Pirates Daughter: A Novel of Adventure - Hardcover

Girardi, Robert

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9780786210572: The Pirates Daughter: A Novel of Adventure

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786210575 ISBN 13: 9780786210572

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1997

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General FictionLarge Print EditionWilson Lander suffers from The Dread, the relentless sensation that something terrible is lurking. Afraid of change and chance, he leads an unsatisfying life devoid of any risk until he meets Cricket Page, a woman emblazoned with wild desire, a sailor ripened by a life at sea, and the prisoner of a hidden existence. Wilson will follow her anywhere and ends up trapped in Africa where he is witness to a world that exceeds even his most vulgar imaginings. His desire for Cricket leads him to try to save her from this wounded landscape in a war that may be impossible to win.

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From the Publisher:

"Mesmerizing . . . a raucous and darkly humorous tale of one man's journey into a world of amorality, violence, and greed."
--Detroit Free Press

"Intensely atmospheric . . . Timeless in its sensual tone . . . Wonderfully entertaining."
--Publishers Weekly

"Thrilling and imaginative . . . [The Pirate's Daughter] is great fun. I enjoyed it so much I read it in one swift sitting."
--The Times (London)

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h a chance meeting and led to a date at a small French restaurant in a city by the sea. She ordered expensive wine. He paid the bill. She spoke of the sea. He was haunted by her green eyes and copper-colored skin. Then, in a matter of weeks, the woman named Cricket Page would lead Wilson Lander away from the moorings of his familiar life, away from his relationship with a successful businesswoman and onto a tycoon's yacht called the Compound Interest--for a journey across the great Sargasso Sea.

Coming ashore in a world of searing mystery and danger, Lander will pay the price for his unquenchable desire for Cricket Page, for their moments of stolen pleasure and her cryptic promises of a life of luxury together. For she is a pirate's daughter, and in an exotic land exploding with cruelty and violence, populated by maniacs and plunderers, Wilson Lander must escape the woman who has stolen his heart--and given him his freedom.

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