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    Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure Island
    Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure Island
    Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure Island
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    Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure Island

    Written by John Drake

    Narrated by Tim Gregory

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    A swashbuckling triumph of storytelling, Flint and Silver provides a thrilling ride back to the rich and wondrous world of Long John Silver and his fiendish nemesis Joseph Flint in this prequel to the beloved classic Treasure Island. John Silver had never killed a man. Until now, his charisma, sheer size and, when all else failed, powerful fists had been enough to dispatch his enemies. But on a smoldering deck off the coast of Madagascar, his shipmates dead or dying all around him, his cutlass has just claimed the lives of six pirates. Finding himself surrounded by their revenge-thirsty crewmates, Silver fears his promising merchant navy career is at an end. But then the pirate captain makes him an offer he can't refuse. On the other side of the world, Joseph Flint, a naval officer wronged by his superiors, plots a bloody mutiny. Strikingly handsome, brilliant but prey to sadistic tendencies, Flint is regarded as the most dangerous bandit on the high seas. Together these gentlemen of fortune forge a deadly and unstoppable partnership, steering a course through treachery and betrayal while amassing vast treasure. But the arrival of Selena, a beautiful runaway slave with a murderous past, and Flint's schemes to secure the pieces of gold for himself trigger a rivalry that will turn the best of friends into sworn enemies. And so the legend of Treasure Island beginsan epic battle of wits and blades that unravels the mysteries of Robert Louis Stevenson's greatest work on the sweltering seas of the Caribbean.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateApr 15, 2009
    ISBN9781608145560
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    John Drake

    John Drake lives in Cheshire with his family. His hobbies and interests include muzzle-loaded shooting, history and politics. The Flint and Silver series was inspired by the many unanswered questions left by Robert Louis Stevenson’s much-loved classic, Treasure Island.

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    • 5/5
      Spectacular read, now I will have to go back and re-read Treasure Island it filled in the gaps left so many years ago thank you!
    • 4/5
      This is the first in a series of prequel novels to Stevenson's classic Treasure Island. As its title suggests, it is about the earlier lives of Long John Silver and his feared Captain, (Joe in this novel) Flint. Other characters from Treasure Island also make appearances here, including Billy Bones, the old pirate who first appears in Jim Hawkins's inn, Blind Pew, the beggar who gives Bones the infamous Black Spot, Flint's gunner Israel Hands and (very briefly) future castaway Ben Gunn. And Silver's famous parrot, originally belonging to Flint and indeed called Cap'n Flint, is a character in its own right here. Silver and Flint are initially friends, but quickly become rivals and then deadly enemies, with their originally joint crews split into two bitterly fighting factions. Silver comes across well in this novel - while clearly a rogue, he is a good leader of men, trusting his crew and enforcing discipline largely through a generally fair and consistently applied set of rules, the ship's "articles", while Flint rules through terror and brute force. He is here little more than a brutal and greedy sadist, whom his crew fear, but also believe when he tries to deceive them. There is one female character here, Selena, an escaped slave from a South Carolina plantation, who is initially treated well and deceived by Flint's superficial charm, but then turns to Silver. While I generally quite enjoyed this novel, it does not in spirit feel like a prequel to Treasure Island, as (unlike the sequel Flint's Island I read before this) it is not written in Stevenson's style, but like a modern historical novel from the pen of Bernard Cornwell, or Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes, i.e. with fairly graphic descriptions of violence and torture, though there is plenty of good old fashioned adventure as well. Finally, the early part of the novel was a little confusing as the action kept flitting backwards and forwards in the lives of the main protagonists within a three year period, before the main narrative emerged. Overall, a decent read and I will probably read the other prequels.
    • 5/5
      This was a very entertaining historical novel about 18th Century piracy. I especially liked the fact that the author really developed the character of Captain Flint. The book was also very well researched.
    • 1/5
      I'm dubious about whether or not I will actually finish this. The story is not very congruent, lacks a consistently interesting narrative, and is crude and ribald....which i guess fits a description of pirates, or a piratical description. However, other than an exciting opening scene, the author seems to rely on description instead of narrative, a constant information dump. What narrative does happen seems laden with ribald and paper thin characters and language. I doubt I will finish this book.
    • 4/5
      John Drake the author of Flint and Silver says that he wrote this book in order to answer some of the questions left unanswered by Robert Louis Stevenson in his great work. Treasure Island. So for the curious, we find out how Long John Silver lost his leg, how he got his parrot and why the pirates buried their treasure in the first place. We are also introduced to some great characters, principle among them being the utterly wicked Captain Joe Flint. Long John Silver is an absolute gentleman compared to this ruthless pirate.Flint and Silver was a great book about pirates and their peculiarities. The author puts in a good deal of realistic historical information, adventure, and even romance. We can see the shaping of Long John from a merchant marine sailor into the pirate he was to become. I believe this author loved Treasure Island and his prequel rings true in fact and characterization. Kudos for basing his book on such a well-known and well-loved classic. I enjoyed this book, and I definitely plan on reading the sequel Pieces of Eight, as we are left hanging at the end of Flint and Silver, and I would like to eventually have the full story revealed. A fun read and one I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend to fans of the pirate genre.
    • 4/5
      (excerpted from my full review at pewreviews.wordpress.com)Flint and Silver is a fun book to read, with one unfortunate problem. At the beginning of the book, in an effort to provide backstory while advancing the novel’s plot, Drake hops back and forth in time. We start off in 1745, then on to 1749. In chapter three, we’re back with Silver in 1745; chapter 4 is back with Flint in 1749. This didn’t bother me until Flint and Silver met; chapter 5 takes place on “Flint’s Island” in 1752, 6 is back in 1749, and tells the story of what lead up to chapter 5. Chapter 7 is back in 1752, this time with Silver and Flint together; chapter 8 goes back again to 1749 and tells the events that led up to chapter 7. We then head to 1751 to tell another character’s story. Then we go back to 1749 again, for no discernible reason. This made the story tough to read, and I almost gave it up after chapter 12, which takes place in 1750 and tells half the story of how Flint and Silver actually met. And chapter 13 takes place up in 1752 again, leaving us hanging in the middle of that story, not to pick it up again until chapter 15. I could go on, but you get the idea. Among all this time traveling is the short narrative of some survivors of Flint’s treachery aboard the Elizabeth, which seems very out of place, and will probably make little sense to anyone who hasn’t read Treasure Island.Prequels are tough to write. Prequels of other people’s work are even tougher; prequels of someone else’s work that has become a classic work of fiction is nigh on to impossible, and Drake is a brave soul to have attempted it. Leaving aside the time traveling confusion that I’ve already mentioned, Flint and Silver is a fun book, and once we settled down chronologically I had a really hard time putting the book down. This would be a great addition to anyone’s beach reading list.