The original 'Black Caesar' was a legendary African pirate who made his fortune by repeatedly raiding cargo ships in the area around the Florida Keys. In this imaginative novel from popular American author Albert Payson Terhune, the fearsome pirate's descendents are determined to find his buried loot -- and to run off any interlopers who might be after the same prize.

In his jiu-jutsu instructions Brice had learned a rule which he had carried into good effect in other walks of life. Namely to seem to play one's opponent's game and to be fooled by it, and then, taking the conquering adversary by surprise, to strike. Thus he had fallen in with Standish's suggestion that he come to the island, though he had thought himself fairly sure as to the reason for the request. Thus, too, he had let himself be lured into this storeroom, still smugly confident that he held the whip hand of the situation.

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The original 'Black Caesar' was a legendary African pirate who made his fortune by repeatedly raiding cargo ships in the area around the Florida Keys. In this imaginative novel from popular American author Albert Payson Terhune, the fearsome pirate's descendents are determined to find his buried loot -- and to run off any interlopers who might be after the same prize.

Twenty of the most notorious Florida pirates from the 1500s to the present. A lively read for adults and older children alike.

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