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Book: Hardcover with dust jacket. 1971 edition. 253 pages.
Weaving fact and fiction into the fabric of an absorbing novel of adventure, Geoffrey Jenkins has written one of his most imaginative stories. One of the greatest maritime mysteries was the sinking without trace of the crack Blue Anchor liner Waratah off the coast of South Africa in 1909. There were no survivors,no witnesses.
In 1976 a Viscount airliner of the S.A. airlines disappeared without trace or explanation for these two tragedies.
Now Geoffrey Jenkins has linked them dramatically by way of three generations of Fairlies: Douglas Fairlie, first officer of the Waratah, Bruce Fairlie pilot of the Viscount, and Ian Fairlie, the hero of this novel.
Ian Fairlie grew up with the inflexible determination to solve the mystery, not only for personal reasons, but because he felt and knew, as captain of the weathership Walvis Bay, that no shipping or offshore oil exploration would be safe until the mystery had been solved.