The Dagger Quick
The Dagger Chronicles
Published on 10. May 2011
336 pages
978-1-4424-2312-1 (ISBN)
Description
It's the pirate's life for Kitto in this ?exciting and richly detailed historical swashbuckler? (Publishers Weekly).
Twelve-year-old Christopher, aka Kitto, is seemingly doomed to follow in the footsteps of his father as a barrel-maker in seventeenth-century England, especially because of his clubfoot. Yet Kitto longs for more. And after his father is murdered and his stepmother and brother are kidnapped, he has no choice but to set off on a dangerous seafaring voyage with bounty hunters on his trail and his sole ally an uncle he hardly knows; an uncle who is an infamous pirate and the only man ever crazy enough to steal from the equally infamous Governor of Jamaica...
A lively narrative School Library Journal calls ?fast-paced, well-developed, and historically accurate...this coming-of-age quest is perfect for landlubbers and pirate aficionados alike.?
Twelve-year-old Christopher, aka Kitto, is seemingly doomed to follow in the footsteps of his father as a barrel-maker in seventeenth-century England, especially because of his clubfoot. Yet Kitto longs for more. And after his father is murdered and his stepmother and brother are kidnapped, he has no choice but to set off on a dangerous seafaring voyage with bounty hunters on his trail and his sole ally an uncle he hardly knows; an uncle who is an infamous pirate and the only man ever crazy enough to steal from the equally infamous Governor of Jamaica...
A lively narrative School Library Journal calls ?fast-paced, well-developed, and historically accurate...this coming-of-age quest is perfect for landlubbers and pirate aficionados alike.?
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Brian Eames has taught for fifteen years at the Paideia School, a K?12 independent school in Atlanta. He read his first novel, The Dagger Quick, out loud to his class as he wrote it. Publishers Weekly called The Dagger Quick ?thoroughly researched, fast-paced, and tense...embraces the mythical glamour of a pirate's life.? He lives with his wife and children in Atlanta. Visit him at TheDaggerQuick.com.
Content
- Cover
- Dedication
- Map
- Preface
- Cast of Characters
- Contents
- Chapter 1: England, 1678
- Chapter 2: The Captain
- Chapter 3: No Place for Dreams
- Chapter 4: Into the Evening
- Chapter 5: The Meeting
- Chapter 6: Brothers
- Chapter 7: A Rat in the Alley
- Chapter 8: Impending Doom
- Chapter 9: The Thick of It
- Chapter 10: Aboard the Blessed William
- Chapter 11: A Partnership
- Chapter 12: Making Sail
- Chapter 13: Family Tales
- Chapter 14: A Cooper's Boy
- Chapter 15: Approaching Cape Verde
- Chapter 16: Slaver
- Chapter 17: Fate and Greed
- Chapter 18: The Stakes of the Game
- Chapter 19: The Mission
- Chapter 20: Painted Black
- Chapter 21: Attempt at Rescue
- Chapter 22: Duck in Chains
- Chapter 23: Saved by a Slave
- Chapter 24: A Captain Defied
- Chapter 25: The Defense of Van
- Chapter 26: Painful History
- Chapter 27: Prepare to Engage
- Chapter 28: Ringing of Steel
- Chapter 29: Shark!
- Chapter 30: Adrift
- Chapter 31: Storm
- Chapter 32: Ontoquas
- A Pirate Glossary
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
