The Last Bookaneer

von Matthew Pearl

On the island of Samoa, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson, author of TREASURE ISLAND, labours over a new novel. On the other side of the world this news fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, literary pirates who steal the latest manuscripts by famous writers to smuggle them to a hungry public. This gripping novel thrillingly depicts this lost world of doomed outlaws and a brewing colonial war.