A cannonball smashes through the church tower of a sleepy village...spies from a piratical underworld steal into the British Library for a 200 year old map. England's last living pirate, Captain Jericho, recruits schoolboy Wilf Pinnington to enter the "Netherworld" as his apprentice cabin boy on The Devil's Advocate. In the race to prevent the cursed statue of The Golden Hinde falling into the hands of the loathsome Captain Vane, Wilf faces tests of courage that would destroy grown men. Among the heroes, villains and madmen he meets, there's Mundi - the Gandhi-like Master Navigator, the...