dave barry peter and the starcatchers series

Bungling Inventor: Uncle Neville in The Sword of Mercy.Big Damn Heroes: Peter, in the first book, when Slank has a knife to Molly's throat.Bad Boss: In the very first scene with Black Stache, we see him tying up his two fattest sailors and marooning them in a dory, just to make the ship lighter.Androcles' Lion: The mermaids side with Peter after he heals their leader with some starstuff.Always Save the Girl: Every time the villains organize a Hostage for MacGuffin.Adaptational Personality Change: Black Stache aka Captain Hook is a filthy, unwashed thug with a Hook Hand, a far cry from Barrie's Gentleman Pirate obsessed with 'good form.'.Receives a Call-Back at the end of the novel with one between Peter and Hook. Action Prologue: Sword of Mercy opens with a battle between Charlemagne and Ogier the Dane.Peter And The Starcatcher is a play based on the novel. A new series in the same universe of Peter and the Starcatchers begins with the book The Bridge to Neverland.

There are also three significantly shorter spinoff novels about The Lost Boys and Fighting Prawn's younger daughter: Escape from the Carnivale, Cave of the Dark Wind, and Blood Tide. The Peter and the Starcatchers saga, written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, is a series of fantasy novels starting out as prequels to Sir J.M Barrie's Peter Pan, but gradually deviating from its plot.

Dave barry peter and the starcatchers series