"Le pilote du Danube" by Jules Verne is a novel published in 1908. After winning a fishing competition, Hungarian master fisherman Ilia Brusch embarks on an audacious challenge: traveling 3,000 kilometers along the Danube, surviving only on his catch. But when his stops mysteriously coincide with a series of crimes—murders and robberies plaguing the heart of Europe—police chief Karl Dragoch becomes determined to uncover the truth about this enigmatic captain and his vessel. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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