The Great War is over, but 12-year-old Edward Hawkins' war has just begun.
Imprisoned on a remote Scottish lighthouse by his veteran father, a wireless set and a tattered copy of Treasure Island his only windows to the world, he dreams of escaping to a life of adventure on the high seas.
But one day a mysterious radio signal launches Edward on a harrowing odyssey that will take him from the bleak shores of Scotland to thescorching deserts of Morocco during the brutal Rif War - a treacherous world of rogues and bandits that will take all his cunning and courage to survive