This is a novel about modern teenagers—about how their lives in wonderful ways intertwine with the lives of boys from the first postwar years, whose favorite heroes, games, and hobbies—Captain Lukhmanov and “The Secret Crew of Shipwrights”—become just as important and necessary for today’s kids as they were for their peers back in distant 1946.
The book is also about the continuity of generations: how the traditions and moral values of the older generation help the modern heroes make acts that require civic courage, determination, and manly courage.