A Pride of Royals [Paperback]

Justin Scott (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Pinnacle Books (1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 052342101X
• ISBN-13: 978-0523421018
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,965,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Justin Scott has written twenty-four thrillers, historicals, and mystery novels, including The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle. With many books set at sea, he has been called "the Dick Francis of yachting."

He created the Ben Abbott detective series (HardScape, StoneDust, FrostLine, McMansion and Mausoleum), and was twice nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America.

His main pen name is Paul Garrison under which he has written five modern sea thrillers including Red Sky At Morning, Sea Hunter, and The Ripple Effect.

The Wrecker, a collaboration with Clive Cussler is being published Fall of 2009. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, filmmaker Amber Edwards.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Burroughs, November 29, 2010

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Marina - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Pride of Royals (Paperback)

This book is so nonsensical, so removed from even the most tenuous connection to reality, that reading it is pure joy. It's like Edgar R. Burroughs in a more modern language and with more shooting.

A Pride of Royals can be enjoyed on its own, but gets better if you happen to know anything at all about history, or Russia, or WWI, or, in fact, reality. The plot, set just before the Russian Revolution of 1917, involves King George V and Kaiser Wilhelm sending a US Naval lieutenant (whom else would they send?) to bring out of Russia Tzar Nikolai II, the royal family, and a couple of ballet dancers. The lieutenant is assisted by a gay British guards officer and a German submarine. Germans weave dastardly plots. The Tzar's brother weaves disloyal plots. The ballerinas weave artistic plots. The communists weave evil plots. There's plenty of non-explicit sex and dramatic bloodshed. Good triumphs.

5.0 out of 5 stars A great read!, November 14, 2010

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cavewoman "cavewoman" (Fort Worth, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Pride of Royals (Paperback)

This book held me from the first page to the last sentence. I found myself wishing it were not fiction!
In the midst of World War I, with Germany and England at war, Russian Revolutionaries kidnap Czar Nicolas of Russia and his family, and they are imprisoned on an estate in eastern Russia. King George V of England decides to appeal to his cousin Willy (Kaiser of Germany) with whom he is at war, to join forces in smuggling 'Dear Cousin Nicky" out of Russia to safety in England.
He sends an American Naval Officer to seek out the Kaiser, enlist his aid and organize the rescue. It is a rip roaring rollicking story.

If you get a chance to read this by all means do so.

I have read several other of Justin Scott's books and enjoyed them all.