Dead Mans Chest - Roger L. Johnson
Category: Thriller
Narrator: Ralph Cosham
Tags: Thriller
Dead Mans Chest is a classic pirate yarn that begins with long John Silvers escape from the merchantman Hispaniola at Peurta Plata and culminates with the American Revolution more than a decade later. It describes in rich detail the unholy alliance formed between this soft-hearted cut-throut, his teenage nephew, David Noble, and the slaver-turned-merchant captain, John Paul Jones to retrieve a kings ransom of Spanish gold and jewels from Dead Mans Chest; the other two-thirds of the treasure described in Stevensons novel, and the inspiration for the sailors ballad by the same name. Dead Mans Chest explains how the Scottish fugitive John Paul Jones earned a naval commission. More importantly, the novel illuminates a hitherto unknown thirty-month period in John Pauls career. From November 1773 when he killed a mutineer to June 1775 when he received his naval commission in Philadelphia from Thomas Jefferson. Learn how the contract that he and John Silver made with the American founding fat
