John Kemp, the son of a farmer from a remote village in Kent, having heard enough stories about a night rider with his head under his arm, began to dream of a more interesting, bright, eventful life. And the “lucky chance” did not take long to arrive. He introduced the young man to two colorful personalities - a mysterious Spaniard with a pale face and his henchman, a man with a wooden hand. This couple had to bring Johnny into the world - onto the high road, where true romantics of the knife and the ax roam. The next volume of "Masters of Adventure" includes two little-known masterpieces of Joseph Conrad - the pirate odyssey "The Romantic Adventures of John Kemp", which was not reprinted in Russian for almost a whole century, and the double-edged story “Duel”, a real pearl of the genre of cloak and sword. Sign of information products 12+