Madagascar: Or Robert Drury’s Journal (1897)

Dennis McDill, a shipwright, drafted the worldas largest and fastest battleship of his time. His greedy superiors laid a steel trap for the talented draftsman. Jaws of the clenching apparatus could ensnare Dennis to cause the loss of his career, imprisonment, and even death. He was forced to confront the most intense dilemma of his life, while facing an impossible mission in which orders were forceful and irrevocable. Superiors of the commander became conspirators who wanted McDillas schematics and would stop at nothing to obtain them, plunging him and his crew into a cycle of danger. Two antagonistic captains abandoned their loyalty to their country to become rich from the profit of the commanderas creation. Compounding Dennisas problems, his lieutenant fell in love with a native woman who had been promised by her father to another man. Her enraged father and inflamed groom-to-be quickly established a private war.