Sabotage in stormy seas
THE SHADOW IN THE SANDS
First published by Headline in 1998. Currently available via Kindle, £4.64
Her bow plunged into the deeps with a booming like the hammers of Hell
was thundering under bare poles into a night no less black than when I had last seen it. The wind felt softer, which is always the way when that is blowing you along. There was a dirty square sea running, which is to say the waves were six foot high and six foot wide and not a lot more than that apart. And needless to say , that had her mast just about in the middle of her sail plan was not lying easy, head to
