High Water
By (Author) Douglas Reeman
Cornerstone
Arrow Books Ltd
24th May 1989
26th January 1984
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
823.914
Paperback
256
Width 110mm, Height 180mm, Spine 16mm
141g
A classic of naval fiction from 'the master of the modern sea story'. With his own boat, the motor yacht Sea Fox, former naval officer Philip Vivian had hoped to earn a living free from the petty restrictions of everyday life, close to the sea he loved. Now, however, his dream is threatened by financial difficulties. So when a profitable, if legally dubious, proposition is put to him by an old naval comrade in arms, Vivian is willing to listen. But what starts out as a harmless adventure soon turns into something altogether more sinister. And Vivian finds himself trapped in a treacherous web of violence and crime, dangerously torn between his stubborn sense of past loyalties and his duty to a society he has always despised.
Douglas Reeman did convoy duty in the navy in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the North Sea. He has written over thirty novels under his own name and more than twenty bestselling historical novels featuring Richard Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.