For Harry Fletcher, life on St Mary's Island is good. He has a fine boat and rich clients eager to charter it, a home amongst the palms, friends and attractive girls to share his paradise. Harry is at peace until suddenly men from the world of violence he has forsaken arrive on the island.
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"A bonanza of excitement!"--"New York Times"
"Action is the name of Wilbur Smith's game and he is a master."--"The Washington Post Book World"
"Action follows action..mystery is piled on mystery...tales to delight the millions of addicts of the gusty adventure story."--"Sunday Express"
"Raw experience, grim realism, history, and romance welded with mystery and the bewilderment of life itself." --"Library Journal"
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"Action is the name of Wilbur Smith's game and he is a master."--"The Washington Post Book World"
"Action follows action..mystery is piled on mystery...tales to delight the millions of addicts of the gusty adventure story."--"Sunday Express"
"Raw experience, grim realism, history, and romance welded with mystery and the bewilderment of life itself." --"Library Journal"
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'I was looking down, watching the shark come. It seemed to swell up in size as it rushed towards me. Every detail was burned into my mind in those frantic seconds. I saw the hog's snout with the two slotted nostrils, the golden eyes with the black pupils like arrowheads, the broad blue back from which stood the tall executioner's blade of the dorsal fin.' Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, has reformed and is making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing for big game in the seductive waters of the Indian Ocean. Suddenly men from the world of violence Harry has put behind him overturn his good intentions, involving him in a hectic race to recover a fabulous treasure from an ancient wreck. 'Wilbur Smith is one of the benchmarks against whom others are compared' The Times
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Smith breaks from his usual fare of good, butformulaic series books, and shows that he is perfectly capable of pulling off the stand-alone novel with style. Well-written and with a good plot, this will keep you turning pages. Smith's main advantage over the likes of jack higgins is his strong story telling abilities and excellent use of language, both evident in this book.
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This was the first book of Smiths i had read, and i found it impossible to put down. From the first page, the characters are made so real that you immediatly care about them, and feel the need to find out what happens. Someof the action scenes are so gripping, it feels like you are watching a great movie, and Smiths writing is so wonderfully descriptive, you can really picture the action, and sympathise with the emotions of the characters. A fantastic read.
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Harry Fletcher lives a quiet life on St Mary's Island and he takes charters on board "Wave Dancer" for fishing and diving. Angelo and Chubby are his two assistants. But the inoffensive Harry once used to be called Harry Bruce and he used to practice the art of violence and sudden death in Malaya, Vietnam, the Congo and Biatra. Furthermore he used to lift complete collections of gold coins in the British Museum and cut diamonds in Amsterdam and to transport hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold bars from Switzerland to Rome.
One day three suspicious looking men, Charley Anderson, Mike Guthric and Jimmy North, want to hire Harry's boat claiming that they want "to do a little exploring" and that they need a full array of scuba diving and salvage equipment. Then they hand Harry a chart showing that they are interested in an area thirty miles north of the mouth of the Rovuma River. What are these men after? When they recognise Harry as "the gold heist from Rome", he senses that the stakes are high and that he is sitting in the game with "big boys" once again... One of the best adventure novel by Wilbur Smith.
One day three suspicious looking men, Charley Anderson, Mike Guthric and Jimmy North, want to hire Harry's boat claiming that they want "to do a little exploring" and that they need a full array of scuba diving and salvage equipment. Then they hand Harry a chart showing that they are interested in an area thirty miles north of the mouth of the Rovuma River. What are these men after? When they recognise Harry as "the gold heist from Rome", he senses that the stakes are high and that he is sitting in the game with "big boys" once again... One of the best adventure novel by Wilbur Smith.
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Can't wait for the next book in this vein. Smith is a master story teller, bringing characters and geography to brilliant, vivid life on every page!
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Wilbur Smith is a fantastic author, very versatile with a strong style, amazing drama.
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A Great read.
I read this book about 10 years ago, and have just re-read it, and enjoyed it every bit as much as I did the first time. Wilbur Smith at his best.
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It's an ok read not his best
I have loved lots of Wilbur Smith's books but I didn't connect with the characters in this book it's a nice easy read and is one of those books that should be a film.
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I have owned this book in a paper back issue for several years, and have taken it all over Europe as my holiday read. Read more
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