The Curse of the Golden Hinde

A cannonball smashes through the church tower of a sleepy village...spies from a piratical underworld steal into the British Library for a 200 year old map. England's last living pirate, Captain Jericho, recruits schoolboy Wilf Pinnington to enter the "Netherworld" as his apprentice cabin boy on The Devil's Advocate. In the race to prevent the cursed statue of The Golden Hinde falling into the hands of the loathsome Captain Vane, Wilf faces tests of courage that would destroy grown men. Among the heroes, villains and madmen he meets, there's Mundi - the Gandhi-like Master Navigator, the Phoenix Sisters - as beautiful as they are deadly and whose swordplay has no equal, Bose - First Mate and honest as the yardarm's long, crazed Gambrinus - a Professor of Explosions and the satanic Captain Vane - who reinvents the nature of evil. The Curse of the Golden Hinde is a modern day Treasure Island, packed with action, suspense, daring and surreal humour. It's a tale written for any boy or girl who has felt the sea breeze ruffle their hair and wondered what adventure lies over the horizon.