A rousing old-fashioned adventure, The Dagger Quick is the story of twelve-year-old Christopher, a boy with a clubfoot who is seemingly doomed to follow in the footsteps of his father as a cooper in seventeenth-century England. Yet, Christopher longs for more. But after his mother is kidnapped and his father is murdered--and Christopher is blamed for the crime--he has no choice but to set off on a dangerous seafaring voyage with bounty hunters on his trail and his only ally an uncle he hardly knows; an uncle who is an infamous pirate and the only man ever crazy enough to steal from the equally infamous Governor of Jamaica....