LAST IN THE SERIES: When Chance and his old compadre, Sam Clemens (alias Mark Twain), take a New Orleans-bound sidewheeler, they're plundered by river rogues and plunged into the killing currents of the Mississippi. Getting rescued by a raft-riding runaway and his friend, a fugitive slave, begins one of the riskiest journeys Chance has ever taken. In fact, with all the deadly entanglements Big Muddy has in store ... this could be the stuff that great books are made of. Chance just hopes he lives to read it!