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A chronicle of the adventures of pirate Capt. Flint, his mateys and his rivals in the early 18th-century Caribbean begins with Flint facing a mutiny, while buccaneer cohort John Silver keeps something of great value under wraps.

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Merchant sailor John Silver joins Captain Flint 's crew as a cook after surviving an ambush by Flint's ship, Walrus; he secretly pockets a missing page from his former employer's logbook with information that the captain seeks. Meanwhile, Flint faces a potential mutiny from his crew over a lack of prize money and the threat of HMS Scarborough, a notorious pirate hunter. The Captain recruits his first mate Billy Bones to deal with a mutinous crewman, Singleton, and make an example of him to discourage rebellion. Meanwhile, Eleanor Guthrie tries to keep order on the lawless island of New Providence while conducting her father's business as the fence for turning the pirates ill-gotten booty into laundered cash, as the Royal Navy begins making plans to deal with the islanders once and for all.

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