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HMS Wagtail is a river gunboat, a ship seemingly at the end of her useful life, lying in a Hong Kong dockyard awaiting her last summons to the breakers' yard. Commander Justin Rolfe is also seemingly at the end of his useful naval life, an embittered man, brooding and angry from a court-martial verdict. Then the offshore island of Santu is threatened with invasion from the Chinese mainland. The small British community must be brought out and Commander Rolfe and the Wagtail are ordered to the island. The job is regarded with sullen resentment by his crew, but to Rolfe, and even the ship, it is a job that offers the chance of a reprieve and a restoration of self respect.
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"A fine nautical adventure, a rattling yarn in the best tradition of navy fiction." Birmingham Mail"
"The adventures ashore and afloat are as brilliantly pictured as the general plot is cleverly conceived. Character-drawing, action, Rolfe's conquest of his worse self--all go to make much more than a notable thriller." Birmingham Post"
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"The adventures ashore and afloat are as brilliantly pictured as the general plot is cleverly conceived. Character-drawing, action, Rolfe's conquest of his worse self--all go to make much more than a notable thriller." Birmingham Post"
'Mr Reeman writes with great knowledge about the sea and those who sail on it.' (The Times)
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- PublisherBuccaneer Books
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0899665578
- ISBN 13 9780899665573
- BindingHardcover
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