DANIEL BOYD – Hamlet Among the Pirates. Montag Press, softcover, August 2024.

   The book’s been out a while, but I’ve been in a long-lasting reading slump the past few months, and instead of having you wait for me to read it and tell you to buy it, I think it best if I for now just skip the middle step and tell you to buy it.

   Why? Maybe you already know this, but Daniel Boyd is actually our good friend and ace book and movie reviewer Dan Stumpf. He also leaves good comments here as well.

   Here below is Amazon’s cover image the book, should you care to buy it there, and after that a description of sorts of the story itself. (You can also click on the cover, follow the arrows, and (if all goes well) all kinds of wonderful things will (might) happen.)

         HAMLET ON THE HIGH SEAS!

When Captain Jacobus Hooke, Master of the
Dread Pirate Frigate DEBACLE, meets up with Hamlet,
Prince of Denmark, the action never stops.
Get ready for laughter and excitement, as a hard-working
Pirate Captain accidentally kidnaps the Melancholy Dane and finds
himself saddled with a princely hostage no one wants to ransom!

      Swordfights
      Strumpets
      Sea Battles
      Literary Allusions
      Surprise Encounters
      Super Storms
      And Just Plain Silliness

   Whether you know Shakespeare and HAMLET, or you just enjoy a good adventure story, this one will keep you turning the pages. Inspired by one brief reference to pirates in the play, Daniel Boyd creates a high seas adventure like no other.