With its more mature themes, adult readers will enjoy the entertaining plot twists, the filling in of details in the lives of Captain John Paul Jones and the notorious pirate, Long John Silver... Fans of naval stories should love Johnson's book, which honors Stevenson's classic. 2003 Review, Audiofile.

While searching through the 1919 Parliamentary records for quotes by Winston Churchill, U.S. Navy Commander Roger Johnson happened upon a seventy page hand-written transcript of a Royal Admiralty hearing. This hearing dealt with the near-sinking of H.M.S. King James, a British man-of-war. The document was of only passing interest until the Commander came across the words to a seamens' ballad entitled, "Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest," and a description of events that matched in every detail the novel "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Sandwiched within the testimony of Royal Navy...

While searching through the 1919 Parliamentary records for quotes by Winston Churchill, U.S. Navy Commander Roger Johnson happened upon a seventy page hand-written transcript of a Royal Admiralty hearing. This hearing dealt with the near-sinking of H.M.S. King James, a British man-of-war. The document was of only passing interest until the Commander came across the words to a seamens' ballad entitled, ""Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest,"" and a description of events that matched in every detail the novel ""Treasure Island"" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Sandwiched within the testimony of Royal...