What starts out as a pleasant family sea voyage takes a nightmarish turn in R.M. Ballantyne's The Pirate City. A prosperous Italian businessman and his sons are captured by a crew of pirates and are forcibly entered into servitude in the vast, roiling den of iniquity known as "e;Pirate City."e; They make the best of their horrific ordeal, but will they ever be able to escape and make it ba...