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Title: Buccaneer

Subtitle: A Hector Lynch Novel

Author: Tim Severin

Narrator: John Cormack

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-12

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Sailing across the Caribbean Hector Lynch falls into the hands of the notorious buccaneer, Captain John Coxon. Hectors friends, Dan and Jacques, are released when Coxon mistakes Hector for the nephew of Sir Thomas Lynch, the Governor of Jamaica. But when Coxon delivers Hector to Sir Henry Morgan, the Governors bitter enemy, he is publicly humiliated when it is revealed that Hector is not Sir Thomass nephew. From then on, Coxon seeks to revenge himself and the young seafarer finds himself on the run again.

Critic Reviews:

"Its a pity Tim Severins young hero is living 330 years too early to make a Sky documentary. Hector Lynch Meets Pirates might have given Ross Kemp On Gangs a run for its money." (Telegraph.co.uk)

Members Reviews:

A Good Tale...

Pirates on the Spanish Main in the late 1600s!

It's a well thought out historically accurate novel. But the good natured hero, Hector Lynch, keeps falling out of the frying pan into the fire. It would be enough to break any normal man. I have to stop and put the book down for a while and take a deep breath. It's does make me feel very lucky not to be Hector. And when he gets in trouble there is none of this "He's the hero. Nothing can happen to him." stuff.

The first book in the seriesCorsairis definitely worth reading first. So if you haven't already done so, start there.

In that book Hector is just hanging around his home in rural Ireland when the entire village gets caught by slavers. (Also historically accurate.) It's not as bad as it could be but with Tim Severin writing you never know what is going to happen next.

Young Adult Pirate Fiction

I would classify this as 'Young Adult' literature, suitable for ages 10 to 12.

Great book

I look forward to the next installment of the series. I've read all of Tim's fictional works and really enjoy his stories.

A brilliant piratey read

Tim Severin uses actual historical characters and events to shape his fictional stories. In this second Hector Lynch story, we have moved from Europe and the Mediterranean to the Caribbean, switched from the Turkish Corsairs to Buccaneers, essentially a different form of barely legal piracy. Severin describes the times and conditions in detail, using the story of Lynch and his friends as a backdrop for this. Because the historical detail takes precedence, some people have argued that the characters are shallow. I believe that we get just enough character detail to be interested in them as much as the historical references. And, for me, that also doesnât detract in any way from the overall storytelling.

For all the friends that Hector has made along the way, he has lost so much on his journey. We donât hear any more about his sister in this story, apart from a couple of small mentions, but he is still battling hard to find true freedom. He doesnât really have the heart for true piracy and killing, but he has made himself useful in other ways, as a map copier/maker, navigator, and negotiator, even apprenticing himself to a surgeon for a time.

Essentially some people had no choice but to take up the life in times and an area where honest work wasnât always that easy to come by.