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Book Review By Jack Goodstein
The Pirate by Harold Robbins

Baydr Al Fay was raised to be a Westernized business man so that he could handle the oil riches of the Prince of his unnamed country. He is promised that his son will be named heir of the Prince, who has no sons of his own. Baydr's first wife, an Arab woman, bears him only daughters. He divorces her and marries, Jordanna, a young Californian, who becomes a Moslem and bears him two sons. Terrorists plot to use Baydr's family as hostages to get him to help them conduct their business. They get one of his daughters to help them. In the end he has to get the Israelis to help save his family.

Robbins interlaces the plot with explicit descriptions of Baydr's sexual activities with Jordanna and others, Jordanna's with other men, as well as the heterosexual and homosexual relations of almost all of the minor characters.


Plot & Themes
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 1960's-1970's
Ethnic/Regional/Religion
Other aspects:
Crime & Police story Yes
Story of
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Ethnic/regional/gender life Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - 40's-50's
Ethnicity/Nationality

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 3 ()
Europe Yes
Africa Yes

Writing Style
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - lesbians! - actual description of hetero sex - Boob talk! - Vagia talk! - two guys doing it
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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