The Pirates!
''The Pirates!'' is a series of five comedy books following a group of pirates on their adventures. It is written by British author Gideon Defoe and was published starting in 2004 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The fifth book, ''The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics'' was released in 2012, and was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. Books # '' The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists'' (2004) # ''The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling'' (2005) # ''The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists'' (2006) # ''The Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon'' (2008) # ''The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics'' (2012) Characters The Pirates * The Pirate Captain, the protagonist of the series. He is arrogant, naïve, and mostly incompetent as a pirate and as a sea captain, to the point of being completely unaware of how to sail a ship. The few times he attempts to capture and loot ships, he fails in spectacular fashion. Instead, he and his pirate crew spend most of thei ...
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