The King's Buccaneer
core novel 1992 Riftwar Cycle
Record
| First published | 1992 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.08 (26,604 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 523 |
| First-edition ISBN | 0-385-23625-5 |
| First-edition date | 1992-11 |
| Internal chronology | 15 |
Synopsis
The King's Buccaneer is the second book of Krondor's Sons, following Nicholas, the youngest son of Prince Arutha, as he trains as a squire under his uncle Martin at Crydee on the Far Coast. When Durbin slavers and pirates from the Sunset Islands raid the coast and carry off a number of the castle's young people, including Nicholas's cousin Margaret and the woman both Nicholas and his cousin Marcus have feelings for, Nicholas assembles a crew, including the pirate survivor Admiral Trask, to pursue the raiders across unfamiliar waters. The mage Pug later joins the effort, having recognized that the kidnappings conceal a far graver plot: the serpent-like Pantathians intend to seed the Kingdom with disguised duplicates of its people as the opening move of a plague meant to devastate the realm, forcing Nicholas's rescue mission to become a race against a hidden enemy.
Where it sits
- Universe: Riftwar Cycle
- Series: Krondor's Sons core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Raymond E. Feist
Notes
- A planned third book, 'The Return of the Buccaneer', was never written.
- From the series record (Krondor's Sons): Distinct from, and not to be confused with, The Riftwar Legacy (the Krondor game novelizations).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Krondor's Sons: position 2 of 2: previous Prince of the Blood (1989)
- Internal chronology, within Riftwar Cycle: position 15 of 30: previous Prince of the Blood (1989) · next Shadow of a Dark Queen (1994)
Sources
- Crydee.com, Official Raymond E. Feist site
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riftwar_Cycle
- https://www.isfdb.org
- https://midkemia.fandom.com/wiki/The_King%27s_Buccaneer
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