&ldquo;The Cruise of the Dazzler&rdquo; is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.<br />The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boy&#39;s adventure novel.<br />In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school, runs away and joins the crew of a sloop he sees in San Francisco Bay. He finds the captain is involved in criminal activities.