“Makes the pirate world come alive.”
-- Kirkus Reviews

“Raving, raging, wheedling, bullying, plotting, bellowing, yarning away, the remarkable voice of Silver himself is the gift that Edward Chupack has given us in this daring novel. The old blackguard surely does love the sound of own voice. I loved it too.” -- Jon Clinch, Author of Finn

“A fascinating, rough-edged read. A thoroughly unsanitized Long John Silver in his own right: brutal, bloody —and altogether gripping.” -- Diana Gabaldon

“'My own tale as written by me with a goodly amount of murder.' These 'memoirs' purportedly penned by Long John Silver-a pirate and charming, unapologetic murderer, contains a code that leads to a treasure. Remarkable and darkly entertaining.”
-- Seaworthy Publications

“This is a savage, heart-pounding novel 'by one of the Canon’s great villains and full, as Silver himself says “of treasure, as there is such pleasure in the telling of it, like nipping from a glass of brandy in the eventide, a long eventide made of odds and chances with a red dawn in

the reckoning. And, he should be sure not to leave out the blood.'” -- MacMillan Library, SMP Winter 2008

(Starred review) "At the start of Chupack's swashbuckling debut, Long John Silver, yes, that Long John Silver, faces hanging back in England after a life of piracy on the seven seas. But before he swings, the aging, fever-ridden pirate is determined to tell his fabulous story, so settle back, me hearties, it's one hell of a tale. Silver has a dual motive: not only does he wish to torment his captor, who has taken him prisoner aboard his own ship, but he also hopes to secure his release by promising to reveal the whereabouts of his fabled treasure. Some of the old Treasure Island gang return, but this is no retelling of the original. Chupack is particularly good at pirate dialogue (Silver says of the killing of his mate, Smollet: “he made an excellent corpse on account that you puddened him to the plansheers, so when the wind blowed aft to lee, he bade a farewell to the world”). Murder, a map, ciphers and codes, and even a bit of romance figure in Silver's riveting narrative as well. (Feb.)” -- Publisher's Weekly

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The resurrection of fiction’s most popular characters — in novels like Geraldine Brooks’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “March” and Donald McCaig’s “Rhett Butler’s People” — has become a popular genre in recent times. But these books, with their well-polished 21st-century prose, have little in common with Edward Chupack’s “Silver,” a scabrous reimagining of the life of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous creation. Instead, this witty romp resembles nothing so much as George Macdonald Fraser’s Flashman novels, with their deliberately antique 19th-century style. Like Flashman, Long John Silver makes no apologies for his behavior. And, like Fraser, Chupack makes no belated attempts to find heroism in an antihero. (...more) --Sarah Huges, The New York Times

'A lie is peach pie. The truth is porridge,'' says Long John Silver, the brazenly duplicitous fabulist of this invigorating novel by Edward Chupack. Imprisoned on his own ship bound for England and the gallows, the Treasure Island buccaneer tells the saga of his bloody rise from street urchin to pirate captain, while parceling out clues to a buried treasure. What fills Silver's sails is not so much the mystery as its richly imagined protagonist. Given to exotic turns of phrase (London is a town of ''skinny dogs and fat rats''; a scurvied mate has a mouth like a ''shallow grave''), the old salt's tale gleams like a sharpened cutlass.
--EW review by Ben Spier