Wake of the Perdido Star

By Gene Hackman

Subjects: Cuba, fiction, Fiction, Fiction, men's adventure, History

Description: A young man's adventures at sea in the early 1800s. After his parents are murdered in Cuba, Jack O'Reilly enlists on a U.S. merchant ship, where he distinguishes himself in deep diving, becomes a pirate and returns to Cuba to seek revenge on his parents' killers.