The Perils of Certain English Prisoners takes place in Belize, an English colony, at a silver mine overrun by pirates. It is composed of three chapters, the second of which was written by Wilkie Collins under Dickens's supervision. The book is Dickens's narrative response to the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Unlike Disraeli and others, Dickens had no sympathy for the mutineers, and in the end of The Perils, the pirates are routed by the English Navy and their leader is shot.