The Sea-Hawk Book

Sabatini seems so far to have a pattern to his writing. His stories stop when the hero has his happy ending and justice has been delivered to his villains, i.e., actual scumbags for whom there is very little sympathy from the reader. In all three books, there is also the woman who misunderstands the hero, the side villain that redeems himself, and the fool of a side character that makes life hard for the hero. The hero is sardonic, honorable, stoic, steadfast, and faces adversity with a barbed tongue, dignity, and cunning resourcefulness. Despite these patterns, I've found that the three books I've read of him thus far have been very different from each other and enjoyable in different ways, and that their heroes, while sharing personality points, are characters that stand on their own without borrowing fromt he others. Even knowing that it will be a good ending doesn't stop me from getting caught up in the tension of the Sea Hawk, for example, and the emotions expounded on by the narrator. You just want to know how the story will unfurl, how Oliver will dodge the bullet, and so on and so forth. I think I could read Sabatini forever, hahaha.