Robin Hood? Fighters for justice? Oh, come on! Bet you—if you look at it—everything those “Lincoln-cloth green cloaks” meant for contemporaries was the same as what our “raspberry-jacket thugs” mean to us. That’s true—and the reverse is true as well: in a couple of centuries, and the heroes of our time in those raspberry jackets will inevitably become romantic figures, just as free archers from Sherwood Forest or pirates of the “Flibustier Far Blue Sea” are romantic today. So why wait three centuries? Why don’t these guys become noble—and even, somewhere, selfless—right now? Maybe in the stories about “Borya the Robin Hood” there’s a bit of exaggeration—but surely not more than in the tales about his Sherwood predecessor…
Contents:
1. Caribbean Tango
2. From Russia with Love
3. Paladins and Saracens