so-so
From early in Andre Norton's career (1948), this is a juvenile pirate adventure, featuring a cabin boy of unknown parentage, caught between the pirate captain who raised him and the British officer who just might save him from the gallows. It is of its time (tw for some casual racism that is probably historically accurate but still), and the prose is overly mannered especially for a juvenile, but the plot is packed with action and treachery.
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