Mystery of "Altamare": a novella

Three brave and skillful brother bought a written -off real ocean rescue boat, equipped it with a motor, dressed sails, built a cabin, and they began a fascinating life in one of the largest ports of Europe - Antwerp.

Mark is a younger brother, 13 years old, the most restless, Bob is medium, 15 years old, but an excellent mechanical specialist, Jan is the oldest and reasonable, 17 years old.

The book consists of three parts, in each of which this brave and daring trinity exposes port thieves, international scammers and local gangsters.

In the first part, which gave the name the whole book, the guys investigate the secret of the old steamer Altamar. The ship is sent to the “cemetery” of ships, but suspicious personalities immediately begin to spin around it. In the second part (“scuba gear”), the guys help the police commissar find those who abduct goods. In the third part (“Big Race”), the brothers decide to take part in sailing races, but here they find adventures: with a risk to life, they reveal a gang that stole cars. The races themselves are one of the best places in the book with romantic panoramas, the search for true tactics and acute adversariality.

Author L. Carlae, by profession of a sailor, filled the adventurous, detective plot of the story with an interesting cognitive material. Of course, only a real “sea and river wolf” could describe the life of the port, a river with its difficult currents, a system of gateways and channels, and the control of a sailing boat with love and bewitching details. Perhaps in the image of a pilot and Captain Kesers, the author brought himself out. In addition, the author had three sons, which probably helped him be so believable and interesting to tell about the life and adventures of adolescents