Secret Channel by Mike Williams

Secret Channel by Mike Williams

For the whole of the War a great secret was kept from the enemy--and nation. An elite force of men and women was gathered on the remove coastline of the Scilly Isles: their task was to keep open secret channels between England and France, at any cost.

Inspired by wartime secret operations, Mike Williams has written a thrilling novel set in the Scillies, the English Channel and Northern France and created in Richard Tremayne a naval hero in the mould of a Hornblower or an Aubrey for the navy of the 1940s. The author served in the Royal Marines: his boats are real boats and his sailors real sailors.

Lieutenant Richard Tremayne has lost his wife in the Blitz. He sinks his grief in forging a remarkable team capable of facing huge personal risks and builds an effective relationship with his enigmatic Commander, Enever. Against all odds, time and again the bravery and ingenuity of the small boat men defy belief.

Mike Williams is a master storyteller who brilliantly evokes the haunting islands of the Scillies--This remote and beautiful place as Tremayne puts it--and the menacing waters in which men and women fought and risked their lives.

Williams, Mike: - Mike Williams grew up in the Seattle area and at the age of twenty dropped out of school and journeyed to New York and subsequently Europe. He returned two years later to finish University, but not being very career-minded or a particularly good student, when the opportunity to go sailing came along he jumped at the chance. As he said, It just felt like the right thing to do. After the years circumnavigating, Mike was never really able to settle back into a day job and a conventional life style. As a result, a good part of the last thirty or so years has been spent living overseas, and most of that time has been in Thailand. While the expat life suits him well, a few months every year are spent back in the Pacific Northwest at the old log cabin on Whidbey Island he calls his summer home.

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ISBN 13	9781854186126
ISBN 10	1854186124
Titre	Secret Channel
Auteur	Mike Williams
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Thorogood
Année de publication	2008-09-01
Nombre de pages	390
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