FLASHING SWORDS, DARING DEEDS, FIERY ROMANCE ... FROM THE AUTHOR OF ZORRO!
Many fans of the historical novels of romance and swordplay that writer Johnston McCulley set in Spanish California consider Captián Fly-By-Night to be, after The Mark of Zorro, one of the very best. Set in the same Old California world as McCulley's Zorro stories, the plot of this novel involves impersonation and daring deeds backed up by flashing blades, brazen caballeros and a dash of compelling romance.
Two strangers arrive at a sleepy presidio, both claiming to be on a secret mission from the governor. One is the governor's emissary Senor Rocha, and the other is the murderous Captián Fly-by-Night, a bandit and outlaw leader. But which is which? Señorita Fernandez would like to know, because her arranged marriage to Señor Rocha--whom she has never met--is looming, and she, too, is unsure. The action comes to a boil when Captián Fly-by-Night's revolutionary followers begin a series of bloody attacks geared to depose the government and make their piratical leader absolute ruler of all California!
JOHNSTON McCULLEY's novels of old California are far from the usual run-of-the-mill adventure story. Tiring of the stereotyped backgrounds other authors used, McCulley researched the early mission days in California and wrote The Mark of Zorro, a story that won the hearts of readers around the world. Using the same background, he went on to write nine more exciting and carefully researched tales of Old California, using the techniques he learned writing pulps to give them pace, suspense, and an unequaled panache. Each of the stories McCulley' set in Old California contains an authentic voice of the proud Castilians who once ruled the Pacific Coast, the Franciscan friars who reigned as the supreme arbiters of all spiritual and moral matters--and a genuine compassion for the underdogs, the disinherited peons on whose backs that elegant civilization was carried.
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Many fans of the historical novels of romance and swordplay that writer Johnston McCulley set in Spanish California consider Captián Fly-By-Night to be, after The Mark of Zorro, one of the very best. Set in the same Old California world as McCulley's Zorro stories, the plot of this novel involves impersonation and daring deeds backed up by flashing blades, brazen caballeros and a dash of compelling romance.
Two strangers arrive at a sleepy presidio, both claiming to be on a secret mission from the governor. One is the governor's emissary Senor Rocha, and the other is the murderous Captián Fly-by-Night, a bandit and outlaw leader. But which is which? Señorita Fernandez would like to know, because her arranged marriage to Señor Rocha--whom she has never met--is looming, and she, too, is unsure. The action comes to a boil when Captián Fly-by-Night's revolutionary followers begin a series of bloody attacks geared to depose the government and make their piratical leader absolute ruler of all California!
JOHNSTON McCULLEY's novels of old California are far from the usual run-of-the-mill adventure story. Tiring of the stereotyped backgrounds other authors used, McCulley researched the early mission days in California and wrote The Mark of Zorro, a story that won the hearts of readers around the world. Using the same background, he went on to write nine more exciting and carefully researched tales of Old California, using the techniques he learned writing pulps to give them pace, suspense, and an unequaled panache. Each of the stories McCulley' set in Old California contains an authentic voice of the proud Castilians who once ruled the Pacific Coast, the Franciscan friars who reigned as the supreme arbiters of all spiritual and moral matters--and a genuine compassion for the underdogs, the disinherited peons on whose backs that elegant civilization was carried.
Captain Fly-by-Night
FLASHING SWORDS, DARING DEEDS, FIERY ROMANCE ... FROM THE AUTHOR OF ZORRO!
Many fans of the historical novels of romance and swordplay that writer Johnston McCulley set in Spanish California consider Captián Fly-By-Night to be, after The Mark of Zorro, one of the very best. Set in the same Old California world as McCulley's Zorro stories, the plot of this novel involves impersonation and daring deeds backed up by flashing blades, brazen caballeros and a dash of compelling romance.
Two strangers arrive at a sleepy presidio, both claiming to be on a secret mission from the governor. One is the governor's emissary Senor Rocha, and the other is the murderous Captián Fly-by-Night, a bandit and outlaw leader. But which is which? Señorita Fernandez would like to know, because her arranged marriage to Señor Rocha--whom she has never met--is looming, and she, too, is unsure. The action comes to a boil when Captián Fly-by-Night's revolutionary followers begin a series of bloody attacks geared to depose the government and make their piratical leader absolute ruler of all California!
JOHNSTON McCULLEY's novels of old California are far from the usual run-of-the-mill adventure story. Tiring of the stereotyped backgrounds other authors used, McCulley researched the early mission days in California and wrote The Mark of Zorro, a story that won the hearts of readers around the world. Using the same background, he went on to write nine more exciting and carefully researched tales of Old California, using the techniques he learned writing pulps to give them pace, suspense, and an unequaled panache. Each of the stories McCulley' set in Old California contains an authentic voice of the proud Castilians who once ruled the Pacific Coast, the Franciscan friars who reigned as the supreme arbiters of all spiritual and moral matters--and a genuine compassion for the underdogs, the disinherited peons on whose backs that elegant civilization was carried.
Many fans of the historical novels of romance and swordplay that writer Johnston McCulley set in Spanish California consider Captián Fly-By-Night to be, after The Mark of Zorro, one of the very best. Set in the same Old California world as McCulley's Zorro stories, the plot of this novel involves impersonation and daring deeds backed up by flashing blades, brazen caballeros and a dash of compelling romance.
Two strangers arrive at a sleepy presidio, both claiming to be on a secret mission from the governor. One is the governor's emissary Senor Rocha, and the other is the murderous Captián Fly-by-Night, a bandit and outlaw leader. But which is which? Señorita Fernandez would like to know, because her arranged marriage to Señor Rocha--whom she has never met--is looming, and she, too, is unsure. The action comes to a boil when Captián Fly-by-Night's revolutionary followers begin a series of bloody attacks geared to depose the government and make their piratical leader absolute ruler of all California!
JOHNSTON McCULLEY's novels of old California are far from the usual run-of-the-mill adventure story. Tiring of the stereotyped backgrounds other authors used, McCulley researched the early mission days in California and wrote The Mark of Zorro, a story that won the hearts of readers around the world. Using the same background, he went on to write nine more exciting and carefully researched tales of Old California, using the techniques he learned writing pulps to give them pace, suspense, and an unequaled panache. Each of the stories McCulley' set in Old California contains an authentic voice of the proud Castilians who once ruled the Pacific Coast, the Franciscan friars who reigned as the supreme arbiters of all spiritual and moral matters--and a genuine compassion for the underdogs, the disinherited peons on whose backs that elegant civilization was carried.
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| BN ID: | 2940159118370 |
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| Publisher: | A&T Books |
| Publication date: | 03/31/2018 |
| Series: | The Bold Caballeros |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 2 MB |
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