"The Adventures of Captain Kettle" is a pirate adventure novel featuring the Cuban pirate, 'Captain Kettle' series. In this volume, he has been hired by a trader named Gedge. He was to steam off straight from the Tyne to a point deep in the North Sea, where a yacht would meet him to hand over a consignment of smuggled arms. But he felt the night to be full of eyes, and for a Havana-bound ship to leave the usual steam-lane which leads to the English Channel, was equivalent to a confession of her purpose from the outset. As the journey proceeds, it seems his worst fears were about to be confirmed…