Nick McIver is no ordinary boy, fighting pirates, beating Nazis at their own game, and traveling through time.

The jaws of Gravestone Rock -- The secret drawer -- Nazis in the strawberry patch -- The sea chest -- The dark cave -- Billy Blood -- Two terrible letters -- A council of war -- The Leviathan -- The Nantucket sleigh ride -- The electrified lagoon -- The Chinese butler -- Captain Thor's surprise -- Lord Hawke's tea party -- The mystery of time -- The Tempus Machina -- Captain McIver's letter -- Das Kapitan's cabbages -- Tempus et locus -- Pigs and stowaways -- A bump in the night -- In the pigsty -- A skirmish in the dark -- Captain Mciver's cannonball -- The windowless submarine -- In the nick of time -- Kate saves the day -- A landlubber aloft -- Spies for sale -- In the sick bay -- The fully hatched scheme -- The Spanish masquerade -- Nazis in Hawke Lagoon -- Snake Eye and the Kingdom of Lost Children -- Merlin victorious -- A glorious farewell -- Landing at Hawke Field -- Churchill after dinner -- Epilogue -- Postscript.