Tunnell's Boys

In the middle of the Spanish-American War in 1898 sea pilot Peter Long receives a mysterious request for his services. He is asked to guide a three-masted coasting schooner to the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean. But the ship's master is none other than Ebenezer Soule Long's rival from their apprentice days aboard the pilot schooner <I>Tunnell</I>.</P>A pacifist Quaker sympathizer Soule was ousted from the sea pilot service for his activist ways. Despite past rivalries including competition for the love of a wealthy Quaker ship owner's daughter Long still views Soule as his hero. However the Tunnell's crew suspects Soule is a traitor and that Cuba is the schooner's true destination. When Spanish voices are heard in a locked part of the ship's hold mutiny appears imminent.</P>What unfolds is a story of friendship competition and conflict in which Long must look past old feelings and decide where his true loyalties lie.</P>