A Hive of dead men

As a protest against the reinstatement of the Simonstown navel agreement between South Africa and Great Britain, she and her fellow terrorists have stolen the head of Nelson effigy in Westminster Abbey’s museum and defaced the figurehead of Nelson’s ship Medusa in Cape Town.

Meanwhile, a salvage firm has discovered a silver Admiralty oar in the wreck of the Alahbama, sunk in 1864, and ex-SAS officer Rayner Watton is commissioned to take it to London to be examined by the expert Fenella Gault.

The oar is the double of one used in Cape Town’s Admiralty Court and it is decided that the two oars should be exchanged at the Simonstown ceremony
attended by heads of government as a symbol of friendship between the two countries. But Zara Hennessy has other plans and Watton and Fennella are thrown together in a desperate race to uncover her deadly plot…

From Paper Back

A rare silver Admiralty oar is salvaged from the famous 1864 wreck of the Alabama – the exact twin of one used in Cape Town’s Admiralty Court. And when a vital naval agreement is to be signed between south Africa and Great Britian, an exchange of oars will symbolise the friendship between the two countries. But Zara Hennessy, feminist leader of the Rote Zora terrorist group, has other plans …

For the discovery of the oar has resurrected an old bitter grievance, and Zara’s hatred and quest for revenge know no bounds. Ex-SAS officer Rayner Watton is thrown into a desperate race to uncover her deadly plot …

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