The St. Lawrence River has never seemed more treacherous than on the night Ralph Stetson pilots the River Swallow toward the deadly rapids known as the Glues. Sixteen feet of black water and sixty feet of gleaming motor boat stand between him and disaster, but Ralph has handled these wild waters before. He's one of the Border Boys, and they've earned their reputation on this very stretch of river. Yet tonight something is wrong. One of his crew members, Malvin, has earned Ralph's distrust, and the darkness ahead holds more than just killer rocks. When a ghostly craft materializes on the water, its intentions unreadable, the adventure takes a turn toward genuine mystery. What is this phantom vessel? Who commands it? And why does Malvin seem so unnerved? Goldfrap delivers exactly what early twentieth-century adventure fiction promised: boys of nerve and skill, a magnificent machine, and a river that demands everything from those who traverse it.
