Sgt. Kirk #17

In November 1913, amid the swaying palms and shifting tides of the South Seas, the shadows of a coming war loom over a world still steeped in old romantic ideals. Amidst a storm of secrets and shifting loyalties, Corto Maltese finds himself entangled in a web spun by a young woman named Pandora, her enigmatic cousin Cain, the cunning Monk, the brutal Rasputin, the calculating Lieutenant Slütter, and the silent natives Skull and Tarao. With the atmosphere thick as salt spray and every page alive with the pulse of the untamed sea, *Una ballata del mare salato* unfolds as a tale of adventure, mystery, and the quiet, enduring power of the wild.