Wilbur Smith · 1978 · sea

Wilbur Smith's 1978 sea adventure. Ruined and betrayed, the shipping magnate Nick Berg takes the helm of the ocean salvage tug Warlock to claw his way back. From a daring rescue of a stricken liner amid the Antarctic ice to a blazing tanker catastrophe in the stormy North Atlantic, he battles the cruel sea, ruthless rivals, and the wreck of his own past.

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   Cape Town

   Stripped of his shipping empire and his wife by a ruthless rival, Nick Berg stakes everything on the powerful ocean salvage tug Warlock, and puts out from port hungry to prove himself the finest salvage master afloat.

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   The Antarctic

   Word comes of the liner Golden Adventurer, holed and helpless among the icebergs of the far Southern Ocean, her passengers in peril - and Nick drives the Warlock south into the screaming Antarctic gales for the rescue of his life.

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   The North Atlantic

   In the North Atlantic, a tanker breaks and burns in a catastrophe that could poison a coastline - and Nick, with his rival's schemes and his own heart at stake, makes a desperate stand against the hungry sea.