About the book: 2021 / John Kemp, the son of a farmer from a remote village in Kent, having heard enough stories about the night rider with his head under his arm, began to dream about life more interesting, bright, rich. And the “lucky chance” did not take long to arrive. He introduced the young man to two colorful personalities - a mysterious Spaniard with a pale face and his henchman, a man with a wooden hand. This couple had to bring Johnny into the world - onto the high road, where true romantics of the knife and the ax roam. The next volume of "Masters of Adventure" includes two little-known masterpieces of Joseph Conrad - the pirate odyssey "The Romantic Adventures of John Kemp", which was not reprinted in Russian for almost a whole century, and the double-edged story “Duel”, a real pearl of the genre of cloak and sword. Sign of information products 12+