num_pages: 706
description: Dive Into an Adventure 175 Years in the MakingIts the antebellum days of 1847: Correspondent Samantha Swifts voyage from New York to Hawaii to return a kidnapped island girl turns deadly as she struggles to survive aboard a transport ship at the center of the very opium and sex trafficking ring she is determined to expose. From a Five Points brothel in Manhattan to the howling graveyard of Cape Horn to the cyclone-of-the-century off Robinson Crusoe Island in the Pacific someone wants Swift dead  and will do anything to make that happen.Meanwhile secret agent Jack Dancers around-the-world odyssey is driven by orders from President James K. Polk to discover Napoleons long-lost Maltese treasure before an unknown foreign power finds the trove  and buys domination in the Pacific  a domination that could threaten the new California territory. Duty propels Dancer from the same New York brothel to a stolen notebook in Paris to a Christmas tryst in Cairo and headlong into cutthroats in Zanzibar and reeking death temples in Tahiti.But as Swift and Dancers separate trails of danger and death interweave nothing can stop the ruthless and murderous drive of their enemies to achieve their ends. Nothing  that is  until Swift and Dancer meet up in the whalers hellhole of the Pacific: Lahaina Maui. There they are forced to put aside their mutual dislikes  after they uncover a secret so explosive it could destroy Americas fragile young republic forever. Against all odds Swift and Dancer follow an elusive trail stalked by a sadistic killer determined to beat them to one of the worlds greatest treasures. Only to find themselves in a lost world both wondrous and horrifying where the Hawaiian chiefs have long guarded an ancient secret  until now.
language: English
title: The Fishhook Rebellion: Hawai'i 1847
publisher: Inkspiration Media