The Guns of Tortuga

by Thomas E. Fuller and Brad Strickland

Book Overview

Safe Harbor? Five months into their undercover search for the pirate Jack Steele, Captain Hunter and the Aurora head for the island of Tortuga to put in for repairs after a battle with a deadly Spanish ship. Davy Shea, now fifteen years old and accepted by the Aurora's crew, continues to help his uncle Patch in the ship's surgery, but Captain Hunter has a special mission for him. The Captain has learned that captured British officers are being held...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689852975
• ISBN13: 9780689852978
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

A Ballistic Pace

In murky Tortuga, which our heroes are not familiar with, people are getting murdered left and right. From sea battles to swordplay, this book has everything you would think pirates would do. The boy does things that seem realistic for his age (which is the same as mine). He doesn't load cannons or slay pirates himself, but he is a spy and assistant surgeon. There's constant action and surprises, twists and turns and deadly encounters.I finished it in one sitting.The same authors wrote the Wishbone Mystery series. In those books, they leapt from one plot to another too quickly, and the mysteries set in the present weren't very exciting. They write better with one story to tell, and The Guns of Tortuga's hero can fight, battle and spy because he has to do these things to survive.