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Geoffrey Bailey is a man in search of a new job - and a new life. Then Strode & Company, City shipowners, make him a curious offer: find Peter Strode, the family black sheep, and make sure he returns to the fold. Bailey's acceptance of this assignment plunges him into a world where the smiling face of the Maldive Islands masks unseen terrors. But the lethal dangers of the coral reefs and the remote islands are pale in comparison with the civilized jungle of high financial warfare. And the directors of Strode & Company have too much to lose, and too few scruples, to care about one man’s life - or his death.
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"Excellent...his expertise with volcanoes, avalanches, cave-ins and fire at sea is beyond question" (Guardian)
"Here is one of the sheerly enjoyable reading experiences of the year" (New York Times)
"Seamanship, storms, tension galore, money talk and a decent minimum of love - what more could one ask?" (The Bookman magazine)
"Yes! A rip-roarer...those action sequences at which he is so brilliant, the equatorial heat, the bubbling sea-bed, an outworn ship and a drunken skipper - splendid!" (Evening Standard)
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"Here is one of the sheerly enjoyable reading experiences of the year" (New York Times)
"Seamanship, storms, tension galore, money talk and a decent minimum of love - what more could one ask?" (The Bookman magazine)
"Yes! A rip-roarer...those action sequences at which he is so brilliant, the equatorial heat, the bubbling sea-bed, an outworn ship and a drunken skipper - splendid!" (Evening Standard)
A fast-moving, suspenseful tale that combines boardroom intrigues with seafaring adventures, from the author of The Wreck of the Mary Deare
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0786214848
- ISBN 13 9780786214846
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages434
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