Plunder

by Pat Croce, Adam Slutsky

Overview

England, 1713—The height of the Golden Age of Piracy.

Charlie Drake boards the heavily-armed British fighting ship, the Churchill, on the morning after his sixteenth birthday in possession of a mysterious three-lock box left to him by his father. The contents of the box could change Charlie’s life forever, but there’s a catch—the box is booby-trapped, and he doesn’t have the keys.

Aboard the Churchill, young Charlie must earn the respect of a skeptical captain and a disreputable crew who will do anything for a single gold coin while searching for clues to unlock his destiny. In this coming-of-age tale, Charlie will fight enemies of the Crown, visit exotic locales, and make allies of fearsome pirates while proving that he is worthy of his father’s legacy. His first order of business: Don’t get killed trying.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630268954
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	11/17/2015
Series:	Plunder , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	11 - 17 Years

About the Author

Pat Croce graced the cover of Success magazine as the first person to ascend from the training room to the boardroom of a professional sports team. His remarkable success as a physical therapist and pioneer in the sports medicine field to the colorful leader responsible for the resurrection of the Philadelphia 76ers as an NBA championship contender has been defined as one of the most amazing stories in sports history. Through his business savvy, dynamic personality, and emphasis on customer service, Croce created Sports Physical Therapists, a sports medicine empire of 40 centers in 11 states, into a top-ten finalist for the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Following the sale of his company, Croce focused his entrepreneurial spirit and indestructible positive attitude on the purchase of the NBA’s last place team, the Philadelphia 76ers in 1996. During his 5-year tenure as President, the team rose from worst to first in the NBA standings and broke franchise records in attendance, revenue, merchandise, and consecutive wins on the way to the NBA Championships against the Los Angeles Lakers in 2001. As a serial entrepreneur, Croce has been the proud recipient of the “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award, featured on the cover of Inc magazine as “The Dale Carnegie of the 21st Century,” and honored with A&E Biography’s “Community Hero” Award. He is Chairman of Pat Croce&Company that has controlling interests in numerous restaurants and museums, one of which is the internationally-acclaimed St Augustine Pirate&Treasure Museum. Croce is a New York Times best-selling author, nationally-renowned motivational speaker, a commentator for the Summer Olympic Games on NBC for the sport of Taekwondo, and has been a lively guest on Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson, Howard Stern, Bryant Gumbel, Good Morning America, Today, ESPN, and CNN Breaking News shows.
Adam Slutsky is a former participatory feature writer for a wide range of domestic and international publications. His adrenaline junkie tendencies and MacGyver-like skills yielded innumerable high octane adventures, each more incredible (and often unusual) than the previous one. With all of his writing—and especially Plunder—Adam relies on his years of incredible experiences to put his readers smack-dab in the middle of the action and excitement. Visit him at www.AdamSlutsky.com.

Read an Excerpt

Why is this happening to me?

Are they going to kill me?

Or worse?

These questions and many others like them ripped through 17-year-old Charlie’s confused mind like shot through a gun, and each ultimately had the same answer: there was no answer. Judging by the dire predicament he now found himself in, it appeared as if Charlie would never get those answers. Death would come first.

The wet and moldy burlap satchel that had been placed over Charlie’s head reeked of salt and rotten fish and was stifling his breathing. If the men didn’t kill him, sucking in that god-awful smell just might.

Flat on his chest, arms pinned behind his back, wrists and ankles bound, Charlie was completely defenseless. And the ropes that had been tightly knotted around his wrists and ankles could not be undone or broken. The more Charlie tried to wriggle out of his constraints, the more the abrasive hemp bit into his flesh. After just a few minutes of trying he could feel small rivulets of blood trickling down onto his hands and feet.