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Hergé’s Tintin and the Secret of the Unicorn is the 11th volume in the graphic novel series starring the Belgian journalist and his friends. Summary of the Book Tintin buys an old model ship to gift to his friend Captain Haddock. He runs into two strangers, the model ship collector Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine and a mysterious figure known as Barnaby, who try to convince him to sell it to them. Tintin refuses and returns home. He gifts it to Haddock the next day, who makes a startling admission. The ship is a model of the Unicorn, a 17th-century warship captained by his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock. Tintin soon discovers that the model is linked to a centuries-old search for the treasure of the infamous pirate Red Rackham. Tintin and Haddock decide to look for the treasure, but to do so they will need to find two other models of the ship, one of which lies in the hands of an unscrupulous pair of antique dealers known as the Bird Brothers. If Tintin and Haddock don’t stay low, they will soon be marked for death. About Hergé Hergé, or Georges Prosper Remi, was a Belgian cartoonist best associated with his Tintin series. Among his other works are Quick & Flupke and Jo, Zette and Jocko. His artistic style is an example of the distinct ligne claire style. The above title was adapted into a motion-capture film entitled The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson.