Not a sequel to Treasure Island (who would dare such a thing?), but a book inspired by it, a tale of the "treasure not yet lifted" of which Jim Hawkins spoke in the opening sentence of Treasure Island. Wibberley, in his foreword, tells how he came to write Flint's Island: "I realized I must myself, however unworthy, attempt to supply the story of what happened to the remaining treasure or die with that question, raised in childhood, unanswered," and goes on to say: "Flint took over my own work without my willing it. He seemed to be always present as l wrote. I can truthfully say that when 1 started this tale I had no idea how it would end. Flint told me."

Told by Flint or not, it is a gratifyingly bloody and piratical tale, dominated by one of fiction's great hero-rogues, the endlessly cunning, forever evil Long John Silver.

From the dust jacket