{"product_id":"2940149249411","title":"Pirates' Hope","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER PAGE\u003cbr\u003eI  Introducing Mr. Machiavelli Van Dyck 3\u003cbr\u003eII  The Ship's Company 19\u003cbr\u003eIII  The Major—and Others 36\u003cbr\u003eIV  The Log of the Andromeda 50\u003cbr\u003eV  Any Port in a Storm 61\u003cbr\u003eVI  A Sea Change 72\u003cbr\u003eVII  Shore Leave 86\u003cbr\u003eVIII  Into the Primitive 103\u003cbr\u003eIX  The Bully 115\u003cbr\u003eX  The Bones of the Santa Lucia 131\u003cbr\u003eXI  Finders Keepers 144\u003cbr\u003eXII  Bonteck Unloads 159\u003cbr\u003eXIII  The Wind and the Waves Roaring 175\u003cbr\u003eXIV  Hand to Mouth 193\u003cbr\u003eXV  The Merry War 212\u003cbr\u003eXVI  A Marathon and an Ultimatum 235\u003cbr\u003eXVII  Captain Elijah Scores 251\u003cbr\u003eXVIII  Under a Gibbous Moon 266\u003cbr\u003eXIX  The Forward Light 285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCING MR. MACHIAVELLI VAN DYCK\u003cbr\u003eTo those who knew him best and had known him longest, Bonteck Van Dyck, sometime captain of his university eleven, a ball player with the highest batting average on the university nine, a large-lettered star in everything pertaining to athletic accomplishments, and above and beyond this the fortunate—or unfortunate, as one chooses to view it—inheritor of the obese Van Dyck fortune, figured, like the dead kitten discovered on the ash heap by the investigative infant, as \"a perfectly good cat, spoiled.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs was most natural, the spoiling was usually charged in a lump sum to the exaggerated fortune. In the university Van Dyck was a breezy, whole-souled, large-hearted man's man, the idol of his set and fraternity and a pathetically easy mark for the college borrower. Past the college period, however, there came rumors of a radical change; sharp-edged hints that the easy mark was becoming an increasingly hard mark; vague intimations that this prince of good fellows of an earlier day was attaining a certain stony indifference to suffering on the part of those who sought to relieve him of some portion of the money burden. Nay, more; it was whispered that he was not above using the bloated bank account as a club wherewith to dash out the brains of his opponents, not only in the market-place, but at the social fireside, where, as a handsome young Croesus, owning a goodly handful of Manhattan frontages, sailing his own yacht, and traveling in his own private car, he was the legitimate quarry of the match-making mothers—or fathers.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108984963312,"sku":"2940149249411","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149249411_p0.jpg?v=1763721289","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149249411","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}