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Hungry as the Sea

By: Wilbur Smith

Synopsis:

"Nick went head down, finning desperately to catch the swirling body

which tumbled like a leaf in high wind, He had a fleeting glimpse of

Baker's face, contorted with terror and lack of breath, the glass visor

of his helmet already swamping with icy water as the pressure spurted

through the non-return valve. The Chief's headset microphone squealed

once and then went dead as the water shorted it out. "

Robbed of his wife and ousted from his huge shipping empire, Nick Berg

is hell-bent on vengeance. It is the sea which gives him his

opportunity. When his arch-rival's luxury liner is trapped in the

tempestuous Antarctic, Nick stakes all to pit his powerful salvage tug

the Warlock in a desperate race against time and the elements.

the novels of Wilbur Smith

The Courtney Novels: When the Lion Feeds

The Sound of Thunder

A Sparrow Falls

The Burning Shore

Power of the Sword

Rage

A Time to Die

The BaUantyne

Novels:

A Falcon Flies

Men of Men

The Angels Weep

The Leopard Hunts in Darkness

The Dark of the Sun

Shout at the Devil

Gold Mine

The Diamond Hunters

The Sunbird Eagle in the sky

givin wor

The Eye of the Tiger

Cry Wolf

Hungry as the Sea

The Wild Justice

Golden Fox

Elephant Song

Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933.   He was educated at

Michaelhouse and Rhodes University.

He became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of

When the Lion Feeds, and has since written twenty-three novels,

meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide.

He normally travels from November to February, often spending a month

skiing in Switzerland, and visiting Australia and New Zealand for sea

fishing.

Alaska and the dwindling wilderness of the African interior.

He has an abiding concern for the peoples and wildlife of his native

continent, an interest strongly reflected in his novels.

He is married to Danielle, to whom his last nineteen books have been

dedicated.

This book is for my wife Danielle

HUNGRY AS THE SEA

First published in Great Britain 1978 by Mandarin Paperbacks

The an imprint of R6ad International Books Ltd Michelin House, 8i Fulham

Road, London SW3 6RD effec and Auckland, Melbourne, Singapore and

Toronto

Reprinted 1992, 1993 (twice), 1994 (twice), 1995 (twice), 1996 (twice)

Copyright 0 Wilbur Smith 1978

catalogue record for this title to d is available from the British

Library

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of

trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated

without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding oi cover

other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition

including this condition.   being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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Nicholas Berg stepped out of the taxi on to the floodlit dock and paused

to look up at the Warlock.   At this state of the tide she rode high

against the stone quay, so that even though the cranes towered above

her, they did not dwarf her.