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While privateers may be somewhat dated keep in mind it was written 25 years ago it fits in with the hard scifi of the time and ... Read More
In addition one of randolphs allies is also smitten with the beautifulbeyondwords lucinda
Toss in the heros affair with the first lady piracy in near space and a great plot and we have a pretty good book
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Its not romping wideflung space battles or huge spacegoing battle ships
Packaging/appearance
Privateers takes place in the relativly near future
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good, russian, written, near and still. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 40 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 17 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Privateers written originally in 1985 stands a bit apart from the rest of the grand tour novels now at about 17 total
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The us is a shadow of its former self simply trying to hang on in a world dominated by marxist communism
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The russian naturally antagonist is a meglomaniacle baddy bent on crushing the last vestigages of capitalism from space
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Randolph lusts after lucinda the daughter of the venezualan minister of space who is to be married off to the russian antagonist to further the ministers political career
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Unlike some of bovas other work i found privateers to be a very complete novel that is to say that everything introduced in the book was tied up and there were few pages wasted on fluff that was not related to the core plot
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The hero is a playboy selfmade millionaire
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The nasty is a russian meglomaniac
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This book might have been written in 1985 but the author was way ahead of his time
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