For a hundred years, loose copyright laws and a hungry reading public meant that books could be published without an author's permission with extraordinary ease. Authors gained fame but suffered financially. The literary pirates were known as bookaneers. On the eve of the twentieth century, a new international treaty is signed to stop this literary underground. On Samoa, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labors over a new novel. The thought of one last book from the great author fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, and soon two adversaries, the gallant Pen Davenport -- accompanied by bookseller Fergins -- and the monstrous Belial, set out for the Pacific island.
- ISBN10 1410479080
- ISBN13 9781410479082
- Publish Date 6 May 2015 (first published 28 April 2015)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 July 2021
- Imprint Thorndike Press
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 620
- Language English