Jules Verne

Facing the Flag Jules Verne

Super-weapon, imaginary warfare, submarines and sub-ocean hideaway -one of the best of Jules Verne's later novels. The great pirate Ker Karraje kidnaps Thomas Roch, a great French inventor. It is Karraje's plan that Roch build for him the ultimate weapon "The Roch Fulgurator" -a diabolical engine of war that in its explosive effects surpasses anything in this direction conceived by mortal man.

Guided missiles and atomic style bombs fall into the pirate's possession -based in Bermuda- threatening Atlantic shipping and the U. S.'s eastern seaboard.