Rafael Sabatini
Praise for The Sea-Hawk
Sabatini's stories abound with drama and melodrama, action and excitement and brilliant colour, as well as minute period detail. No writer, not Scott, nor Dumas, nor Stevenson, has brought the past to life more vivi ...
George McDonald Fraser
One wonders if there is another storyteller so adroit at filling his pages with intrigue and counter-intrigue, with danger threaded with romance, with a background of lavish colour, of silks and velvets, of swords a ...
Daily Telegraph
A gadzooks romance with a generous measure of blood, revenge, sacrifice, villainy, adventure, and heart-interest
The Nation
Sabatini's stories abound with drama and melodrama, action and excitement and brilliant colour, as well as minute period detail. No writer, not Scott, nor Dumas, nor Stevenson, has brought the past to life more vivi ...
George McDonald Fraser
One wonders if there is another storyteller so adroit at filling his pages with intrigue and counter-intrigue, with danger threaded with romance, with a background of lavish colour, of silks and velvets, of swords a ...
Daily Telegraph
A gadzooks romance with a generous measure of blood, revenge, sacrifice, villainy, adventure, and heart-interest
The Nation
Sabatini's stories abound with drama and melodrama, action and excitement and brilliant colour, as well as minute period detail. No writer, not Scott, nor Dumas, nor Stevenson, has brought the past to life more vivi ...
George McDonald Fraser
One wonders if there is another storyteller so adroit at filling his pages with intrigue and counter-intrigue, with danger threaded with romance, with a background of lavish colour, of silks and velvets, of swords a ...
Daily Telegraph
A gadzooks romance with a generous measure of blood, revenge, sacrifice, villainy, adventure, and heart-interest
The Nation