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Pirata Audiobook Summary

From 21-Jump Street writer and series creator Patrick Hasburgh, a part thriller, part family novel about an ex-pat American living and surfing in Mexico, the family he loves, and the murder he witnesses, in the vein of Don Winslow’s The Dawn Patrol.

“It’s rare to find a novel that’s so harrowing, funny and touching at the same time, but Patrick Hasburgh somehow pulls it off. His surf-bum narrator is a new classic–think of Philip Marlowe, on a longboard.” –Carl Hiaasen, New York Times bestselling author of Razor Girl

“Fueled by equal parts humor and suspense, Pirata makes for a fast and satisfying read.” — Kem Nunn, author of National Book Award Finalist Tapping the Source

“Going straight at the stuff that scares you is good advice. I just didn’t have the courage to do it…”–Nick Lutz

In a former life, Nick Lutz, sold cars in the Golden State. He had a wife and a young son, and they struggled along until Nick was shot in the head when a potential customer hijacked the car he was demonstrating. The incident sets off a bad-luck domino fall, and he loses an eye, his job, his family, and, eventually, his self-respect.

With nothing left, Nick heads for Mexico, where he sheds his former self among an eclectic group of expats and locals, who fondly name him “Pirata” on account of his eye patch. There on the beaches of Sabanita, Nick and his buddy Winsor drink, surf, and–most of all–escape, buoyed away from their pasts on south swells and Tecate. Nothing epic. That is until Winsor’s girlfriend, Meagan, ends their abusive relationship and flees with her two boys to the safety and solace of Nick’s beachside casita. A monsoon season fling of convenience turns into a torrid love affair as new loyalties and dark secrets are shaped into something like a family. But when the local policia struggle to identify a body that has washed up in the surf, Nick realizes his secrets–and sins–have caught up with him. And there are dangerous new surprises that have yet to roll in with the tide. . . .

A gifted storyteller, Hasburgh drops readers into the middle of a gripping, heartwarming, viscerally compelling page turner. At once tender and deadly hysterical, Pirata is a novel readers won’t soon forget.

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Pirata Audiobook Narrator

Charlie Thurston is the narrator of Pirata audiobook that was written by Patrick Hasburgh

Patrick Hasburgh is a former TV and film writer, producer, and director best known for 21 Jump Street and Aspen Extreme. Patrick left show business in 2000 to pursue backcountry skiing, warm ocean surfing, and writing fiction. His first novel was a finalist for the Shamus Award; Pirata is his second novel.

About the Author(s) of Pirata

Patrick Hasburgh is the author of Pirata

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Subjects

The publisher of the Pirata is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, International Mystery & Crime, Mystery & Detective

Additional info

The publisher of the Pirata is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062848741.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Lou

August 11, 2018

Sun, sea, sand, .. mucho troubles in Mexico for a man with one eye called Pirata by many, as in Spanish for Pirate, due to his one eye and patch.You will find him at times in the surf with his certified Mike Hynson Red Fin surfboard, and at others times catch him getting beat down by military with bamboo stick.In San Diego County he lost his house, wife, son, and job and so finds himself across the border now in a little of a jam.Easy flowing, funny and original little summer crime caper of a read.https://more2read.com/review/pirata-by-patrick-hasburgh/

Kathleen

June 18, 2018

Nick has really, well, blown up his life. Understandably, he wanted to make some changes after being shot in the head but the move to Mexico brings a more dramatic shift in lifestyle than even he could have anticipated. Surf culture is not always as laid back as we would like to think. He makes what many would agree is a bad decision when Meagan kills Winsor when instead of reporting it, they disappear the body and move in together. Winsor was a bad guy in more ways than one but this doesn't make a difference in the end. Nick learns that you can run but not hide and that the past will haunt you. Hasbaugh has an interesting voice and even if you did not know he has a background in script writing, you can see the potential for a movie in this one. Thanks to Edelweiss for the ARC. It wasn't one I would have naturally picked off the shelf but I enjoyed it and recommend for a story of a man looking for second chances.

Steve

March 17, 2018

Pirata by Patrick Hasburgh is a wild, crazy, fun, and refreshing beach/family novel. Nick Lutz was a family man, selling cars in Southern California. That changed when he was hijacked while demonstrating a Chevy to a potential customer/car hijacker. Something happens, and Nick leaves his family and lands in a small Mexican beach village. Here he struggles to find a new life and to figure out what happened to his old one. Along the way he meets friends, girlfriends, thieves, and two kids who make him rethink what he is doing.Throw in descriptive surf scenes, drugs and cartels and you have a fine book written by an equally gifted author. Surf is up – buy Pirata and enjoy the wave.

Jim

October 27, 2020

A pleasantly drowsy novel that feels like a 1970s auteur film with noir sensibilities, a more languidly paced NIGHT MOVES, PIRATA is sometimes so sleepy that I drifted away from it from time to time, but it's worth the effort to finish this novel heavily inspired by the 1980s surf-noir classic crime novel by Kem Nunn, TAPPING THE SOURCE.The story is slight — Nick Lutz, an American losing himself in coastal Mexico since being shot in the head in a plot triggered by his ex-wife, helps a fellow expat woman dispose of her abusive boyfriend in the ocean after she kills him in a fit of rage inspired by his sexual exploitation of one of her two teen sons. They know the body will probably wash up sometime, somewhere, and they hope they'll get away it, but they're not sure, and don't entirely care, and as the days and weeks pass, Nick and the woman fall in love, and he falls as well fro the two rudderless boys.The novel is taken up less with this issue, however, than of the not-completely-serene sleepiness of their chosen home, as embodied by surfing. Surfing, as rendered in PIRATA, is less a balm than a tribal affectation, a pursuit with a rigid culture and a zillion unspoken rules and a grinding obsession with authenticity that never seems to allow anybody to relax. THE ENDLESS SUMMER this ain't.All the plot questions eventually get resolved, but I'll have to admit that if you lose interest in how it gets there through the drugged stupor of its prose and tone, I wouldn't blame you much. In the end, PIRATA is a novel that doesn't linger with you quite the way TAPPING THE SOURCE does, but it is a novel of skill, and a small miracle for having the confidence of its own unhurried path. This is no market-of-the-moment thriller, so adjust your expectations accordingly.

Melaina

March 12, 2020

This is a story about, as the main character would say, "surviving ourselves." A series of tragic events leads Nick Lutz to leave his home, wife, and young son in Southern California and move to Mexico to surf his days away. And live in denial of his past.Several years later another series of events involving his surf pals and local friends in Sabinita, MX, turns Nick's life upside down and threatens his placid surf-bum existence. But somehow this shakeup realigns things for him and brings his life back into focus.

michael graney

February 04, 2019

Very enjoyableI read all of Jenn Nunns books years ago and really enjoyed them but there's only three that cover surfing and I was missing for a similar style of story. Patrick's book filled that void and I loved every bit of this book. I really hope he writes another story line this discontinued on with this one.

Ron

September 21, 2018

This is not so much a mystery as a slice of an odd life. But found it in the mystery section so.... Hasburgh has written for TV and has another novel out. He creates interesting characters and unpredictable twists plot twists. It reads pretty fast and keeps the surprises coming with a fair dollop of humor to go with. I enjoyed it a lot.

Madelaine

February 04, 2023

The rain falling like pesos. The red coca cola chairs. The 10am margaritas. Patrick writes so well about Mexico because he knows it, lives it, breathes it, and understands it - deeply. I couldn't put Pirata down. It starts with a dead body and the tension rockets from there. It's fast, very well written, and has huge heart. Thank you, Patrick. Pirata was such a pleasure to read!

Daniel

July 08, 2018

Pretty good story overall. The pacing gets a bit weird at the end, but I devoured this book. It’s worth a read, especially since it’s so quick.

Donald

May 28, 2019

Excellent read! Couldn't put it down.

Joyce

February 06, 2019

FUN READ

Oliver

January 13, 2019

Awesome read!!!! Page turner. One of my favourite

Jeff

April 08, 2019

Eel written with well developed and interesting characters

Erik

January 08, 2019

Hilariously entertaining

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