It has been called "Perhaps the most reliable account of the life of Bully Hayes.
"[1][2][3] Clune had written about Hayes in an episode of his 1938 radio series Scallywags of the Pacific.
[4] He also wrote about him in his 1938 book Free and Easy Land.
[6] Pacific Island Monthly said "It’s a very readable and useful compilation, and it does put the story of Hayes into clearer and truer focus than anything hitherto published... As put together by Clune, from a mass of often contradictory material, this history of Bully Hayes is readable, lively and colourful.
"[7] The Sydney Morning Herald called it "lively reading, full of action.