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