Flint and Silver provides a thrilling ride back to the rich and wondrous world of Long John Silver and his fiendish nemesis Joseph Flint in this prequel to the beloved classic Treasure Island.
Simon & Schuster
May 2010
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Featuring: John Silver; Captain Joseph Flint
368 pages ISBN: 1416592776 EAN: 9781416592778 Trade Size (reprint) Add to Wish List
In this prequel to Treasure Island, John Drake brilliantly imagines the back story of the storied pirates, John Silver and Captain Joseph Flint.
John Silver had never killed a man. Until now, his charisma, sheer size and, when all else failed, powerful fists had been enough to dispatch his enemies. But on a smoldering deck off the coast of Madagascar, his shipmates dead or dying all around him, his cutlass has just claimed the lives of six pirates. Surrounded by their revenge-thirsty crewmates, Silver fears for his life, but then the pirate captain makes him an offer he canβt refuse.
On the other side of the world, Joseph Flint, a naval officer wronged by his superiors, plots a bloody mutiny. Strikingly handsome, brilliant but prey to sadistic tendencies, Flint is regarded as the most dangerous bandit on the high seas and fate would have it that his course intersects with Silverβs.
Together these gentlemen of fortune forge a deadly and unstoppable partnership, steering a course through treachery and betrayal while amassing vast treasure. But the arrival of Selena, a beautiful runaway slave with a murderous past, and Flintβs schemes to secure gold for himself trigger a rivalry that will turn comrades-in-arms into sworn enemies. And so the prequel to the beloved classic Treasure Island unfoldsβan epic battle of wits and blades that unravels the mysteries of Robert Louis Stevensonβs greatest work on the sweltering seas of the Caribbean.
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