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Secret of the Hawk: High Seas. High Adventure.

From the author ofFlint’s Island: The Lost Sequel to Treasure Island….In this high-seas, historical adventure, 16-year-old orphan Peter Millet discovers that his wicked guardian, his uncle, had been a slave trader and was involved in the kidnapping of a young English girl.Peter teams up with an ex-slave, and together they must face mutiny and shipwreck in order to find the girl and return her to her father.“Add this to the increasing number of ‘thrillers’ in hard covers which match and sometimes excel the thrillers of TV and comic books. The background here is the slave trade days of 18th century England. The boy who tells the gruesome tale sees his miserable home go up in flames, his uncle within stricken with leprosy ... it certainly is exciting.”—Louise Bechtel, New York Herald Tribune“There is plenty of action in this well-told story of the English slave trade... Uncommonly well-written.”—Saturday Review, Books for Young ReadersRead more

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