The Devil and the Deep
A Novel by
Andrew Lansdale
Tom Reardon is a Master Mariner but is now ‘on the beach’.
Persuaded to manage what remains of a family shipping business, he takes up the
challenge. The company’s only floating asset founders in a storm and sinks with
all hands including its Captain.
Reardon is puzzled at a government cover-up during the accident
investigation procedure. An investigative lawyer joins Reardon and the drowned
Captain’s daughter when all the proven facts are gathered and presented to the
British government.
But the case is dynamite with national security
in both the UK and the USA compromised.
Agents set out to destroy all the evidence, including the people who
revealed it. First the Captain’s daughter is struck down. Then the lawyer is
the victim of a hit-and-run. Reardon is alone and left to his own inventive devices. He makes
hasty steps to disappear. He uses
every skill he learned as a seafarer to evade capture and escape with his life
and with the evidence.
With the power of the security services in both
the USA and the UK chasing him
down, there can only be one outcome. Reardon and the evidence get permanently
buried.
But do they?
ISBN: 1-4137-5536-4 Price: US$19.95