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Facing the Flag
First published 1897 Reading time about 4 hours
In another science-based entry in his Voyages Extraordinaires series, Verne takes us on the journey of Simon Hart, an engineer who poses as a medical attendant to the scientist Thomas Roch. Roch’s invention of a world-conquering weapon has driven him insane. As the paranoid doctor rests in a sanatorium, the vicious pirate Ker Karraje kidnaps both Roch and Hart. Karraje takes them to a secret hideaway in a burned-out island caldera in the Bermudas—but Hart hatches an ingenious escape plan.
- Science fiction
- Revenge · Fiction
- Pirates · Fiction
- Mentally ill · Fiction
- Abduction · Fiction
- Avarice · Fiction
- Weapons of mass destruction · Fiction
- Patriotism · Fiction
- Loyalty · Fiction
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