Young Broadbrim on a Long Trail

A dangerous ocean. A missing boy. One teenage detective willing to drown to find the truth.

Young Broadbrim is the sharpest mind in New York—and he knows it. While other investigators chase rumors and rely on the police, he reads between the lines, questions the obvious, and trusts no one's theory but his own. When a desperate father bursts into his office convinced his son has been shanghaied aboard a mystery schooner, Young Broadbrim sees what nobody else will admit: the evidence doesn't add up.

But one thing does. Somewhere out on the dark Atlantic, a boy is screaming for help.

Young Broadbrim doesn't wait for permission. He doesn't wait for backup. He hijacks a tugboat at gunpoint, forces it out past Sandy Hook, and dives into a black, freezing ocean to board a ship crewed by dangerous men who will kill to keep their secrets.

Clinging to a schooner's rudder in the open sea, soaked to the bone and outnumbered thirty to one, Young Broadbrim is exactly where he wants to be—on the long trail, alone, with justice on the line.

Because somewhere in the hold of the Lorna Doone, an innocent boy waits in darkness. And Young Broadbrim never loses his quarry.

But can he survive long enough to bring anyone home?