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| A BRIDGE OF MAGPIES – 1974
ISBN 978-1-4401-3514-9
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Struan WeddeI, ex-South African naval officer, is recalled to duty and sent by his former C –in- C on a secret and mysterious mission to remote Possession Island off the forbidding and forbidden Diamond coast of South-West Africa, where he is to become Headman. On arrival he finds he has been preceded by Jutta Walsh, a determined young woman on a mission of her own. There, too, for nearly thirty years, an enigmatic Asian fisherman known as Kaptein Denny has been seeking an elusive prize dearer to him than life itself. These three converge on a God-forsaken strip of coast dominated by the Bridge of Magpies, a natural arch of rock soaring two hundred feet out of the sea, near which lies the wreck of the liner City of Baroda, sunk by enemy submarine action during the war. The arrival of a sinister Korean freighter and her deadly crew precipitates violent action which reaches its tremendous climax when Struan, Jutta and Denny in a small motor- launch pit their wits and skills against the overwhelming odds presented by the no – longer – mysterious freighter – and the spectral reappearance of a sunken U-boat .
From Paper Back U-boat off the Diamond Coast … The U – boat veered. This was the moment I’d been waitng for. I dived. The icy water was a terrible shock. I went down, down, down. Then the U – boat’s black shadow came between me and the surface, the hulk trailing weed and rust. As I kicked myself upwards my hands touched something smooth and round, with a small propeller sticking out from it. I shot to the surface, gasping from fear and lack of air. Denny was coming towards me in the Gaok. I yelled, “keep away! There’s a half fired torpedo under her…” Press Comments “A superior thriller” |
