Six months on from the hair-raising adventures and close calls with death in The Smuggler’s Curse, Red Read is once again in trouble. Big trouble. Expelled from school and charged with assault, he is about to be brutally and painfully punished. Can Captain Black Bowen, the most infamous smuggler ever to ply the coast of northern Australia in the last years of the nineteenth century, rescue him in time? In a story bristling with danger, exciting battles, shipwrecks and killer diseases, Red is once more is forced to steel his nerves and call on all his courage while he and the crew of pirates from The Black Dragon hunt down a great lost treasure. Non-stop action, adventure and excitement await!

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It would be a perfect holiday read and even a great book for adults to read to children as well.
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Middle to upper primary aged boys should thrill to this exciting sequel which recaptures the excitement, looming peril and heart-stopping derring-do that made the ‘The Smuggler’s curse’ such as exhilarating yarn..
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