BAA Publishing
Hurricane Force
Hurricane Force
“Tom Cunliffe is set to become the Dick Francis of the sea. This highly readable novel is nail-bitingly exciting as well as being very well-written. Exceptionally enjoyable.”
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
Bestselling author, including No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series
A boat holed in mid-Atlantic, a dodgy job on a fancy yacht, an undertow of eco-vandalism and a sailor with an ugly choice.
When Ian Hordle arrives singlehanded on a remote Caribbean island pumping for his life, he is sucked into the heart of a murky web of underworld greed.
Drawn to a feisty young lawyer, should he sign on with her, the calypso singer and the island schooner-man to fight for a slim chance of saving the community? Or should he choose the obvious option, fix his boat and run?
A straightforward, resourceful man with a moral dilemma that would have vexed Jack Aubrey, an unavoidable voyage to violent death, and the last brutal card dealt by the elements. Only the finest of seamen can hope to survive.
About the author - Tom Cunliffe
In another life, Tom Cunliffe read law at university, but rather than becoming a barrister he ran away to sea. After heading up a sailing school in the South of France, he served before the mast in small sailing ships, skippered yachts for private owners, raced offshore, worked as mate on a coasting merchant vessel and became an MCA Yachtmaster Ocean Examiner. He’s also a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation.
His first ocean voyage in the 1970s took him and his wife to Brazil and the Caribbean in a 1903 yacht. Over the years he has topped this off with trips to Greenland, the USA, the Mediterranean and who knows where else. In the late 1980s, his Edwardian pilot cutter was the third western yacht into Communist Russia after the revolution.
Tom’s twenty-five technical and historical books include two 'Best Book of the Sea' award winners, but things changed somewhat two decades ago when the BBC discovered he was at home in front of a camera. Two major TV series followed, leading to his ‘Yachts and Yarns’ YouTube channel with 40,000 subscribers, and the global Sea Chest on-line club.
In between all this and maintaining four regular magazine columns, he sails his yacht in Scandinavian waters all summer long, then winters with his wife and fellow-rover Roz in their New Forest cottage. Here, he drives and maintains a 1949 Bentley, initiating his grandsons into the mysteries of the four-stroke cycle. On the weekend when nobody is looking, he cultivates roses.
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