The King of the Sea is the fifth adventure novel in the Salgarian Indo-Malay series. The ghosts of a painful past appear years later. Sandokan and Yanez, chiefs of the pirates of the island of Mompracem, and their faithful companions will have to engage in an all-out fight that will have as a background the enchanting scenery of the Sunda seas where in the praho, the classic wooden ships moved by oars and the wind, were replaced by mighty steel warships, moved by the steam of mighty boilers