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# The Treasure of Dead Man's Chest

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## Customer Reviews

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    Extraordinarily Ambitious Sequel
  

*by F***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2005*

Commander Johnson deserves 5 stars just for ambition.  He has not merely written a sequel to Treasure Island BUT ALSO a sequel to A. D. Howden Smith's excellent but mostly forgotten 
  
Porto Bello Gold : A Prequel to Treasure Island







  
  
     AND offered an explanation for a 20 month gap in John Paul Jones' history AND for how he overcame several obstacles to obtain one of the very first Colonial Navy commissions AND cleared up another mystery involving another historical figure or two AND produced several coincidental meetings of old acquaintances AND suggested that it is all based on a true story AND ... well, perhaps that is the problem.  That's quite a lot for just over 300 pages, which all too often breaks through the most sincerely attempted suspension of disbelief.Which is a shame because Johnson has put together a pretty rousing adventure overall.  His Long John Silver may be the most Machiavellian of all, spinning a scheme that would cause Andrew Murray to blanch, carrying it out mostly from offstage like a spider tending a monstrous web (though when he finally takes a hand, it tends to be decisive).  I hesitate to describe his scheme both because I don't want to give too much away and because it is so damn complicated!Briefly, having failed disastrously at convincing Robert Ormerod to reveal where the larger portion of the treasure was buried in 
  
Porto Bello Gold







  
  
    , Silver has an epiphany (so to speak), what Ormerod won't do for money or in response to threats he MIGHT do for a higher cause: The Revolution.  Silver's adopted brother, a comparatively honest merchant, has come into possession of a shipload of the finest cannon, disguised as ballast, in a ship he obtained from the notorious pirate, Joshua Smoot, Flint's illegitimate son, who was unaware of their presence in the bowels of his prize.  Silver's idea is to get John Paul Jones, currently in town and on the run for killing a mutineer, to convince the American would-be revolutionaries, to convince Ormerod to dig up the treasure and trade it for the cannons, without anyone realizing that he is the author of the scheme because who would ever trust Long John Silver?That's just the beginning; now things start to get complicated.  JPJ picks a bad time to fall in love; the Revolutionary leaders figure out where the cannon originally came from; detouring to the original Treasure Island to pick up the silver bars left behind by the Hispaniola is suggested; Smoot gets wind of the scheme; a certain Lieutenant James (Jim) Hawkins, RN, shows up; etc.; etc.; etc.As tends to be the pattern in Treasure Island versions, prequels, and sequels, one of the most interesting relationships is between a naive young boy and a Machiavellian old man.  The man of course is LJS, and the boy is David Noble, the son of LJS' adoptive brother.  David is easily the least naive (and most conflicted) of these potential proteges because he knows exactly who his uncle is and is willingly helping LJS to succeed with his scheme (well, the part of it he knows about, anyway).  When he's lying through his teeth trying to con JPJ, you know he's a long way from Jim Hawkins or Robert Ormerod for that matter.Faults other than a plot that makes an Indiana Jones movie look like a PBS documentary and a crappy job of editing?  I can think of two that really bothered me.  First, by far the most boring, tiresome character in the book is John Paul Jones.  Maybe the retired USN officer author didn't feel comfortable messing around with one of our greatest naval heroes, or maybe JPJ just wasn't that interesting a person at this stage in his life, but the result is that whenever JPJ takes the stage, the reader will be impatiently waiting for him to leave it.  Not what I've come to expect from reading about the later man, that's for sure.Second, Johnson really treats A. D. Howden Smith's characters rather shabbily, spoiling the ending of 
  
Porto Bello Gold







  
  
    , which came as a surprise because with the increasingly wild revelations as the novel hurtles toward its end, I was sure that he was going pull a rabbit out of the hat for them, too, and I could even see how he was going to do it.  Instead we get the craziest revelation of all, and Smith's characters get zilch.It says on the back of this edition of 
  
Dead Man's Chest







  
  
     that this book is being developed into a major motion picture.  I'm sorry, I just can't see it.  Besides the problem of having crammed in more plot twists than could be handled in a mini-series, such a movie REQUIRES a movie version of 
  
Porto Bello Gold







  
  
     and a remake of Treasure Island just to set it up!  The only hope would be if all three books could somehow be slipped onto Peter Jackson's reading list!  Still, I'd love to see it happen, if only Commander Johnson would agree to fix the problems with the ending!

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    Pirates
  

*by K***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 26, 2022*

Loved it. Great way to keep treasure island going.

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    treachery and surprises in a convoluted tale to recover a treasure as great as that left by Flint on Treasure Island
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 14, 2018*

Not only is this a sequel to "Treasure Island" it is also a sequel to "Porto Bello Gold" by Arthur D. Howden Smith. Characters and events from both novels fill this book, which takes place at the beginning of the American Revolution. Long John Silver spends more time as a mover behind the scenes, with young Captain John Paul--who is forced to add 'Jones' to his name--being the central character for the majority of the tale. Pirates, treachery and surprises in a convoluted tale to recover a treasure as great as that left by Flint on Treasure Island, hidden on the islet known as Dead Man's Chest.

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