Jules Verne’s The Blockade Runners unfolds during the American Civil War as Captain James Playfair pilots the Dolphin on a daring mission to supply the Confederacy by breaking through the Union’s naval blockade, beginning with the ship’s mysterious launch on the Clyde River that draws public curiosity and rumors of a wartime purpose, with Playfair seeking profit by exchanging goods for Southern cotton, but when the determined young Jenny Halliburtt secretly boards the ship to rescue her imprisoned father in Charleston, the mission becomes complicated, and her presence forces the captain to grapple with moral dilemmas that blur the line between duty, profit, and conscience.
