Peter Abrahams tells an intricate tale of a seemingly innocent plan that takes a deadly turn, putting three young students on a collision course with a desperate criminal.

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t's Friday at the Appleseed Rectory, and hosted by Quentin Villers and Celiea, a weekend house-party is in full swing. Who's popping what? Who's screwing Lucy? Can they take the pace? Friday melts into Saturday, Saturday spirals into Sunday.

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Dirk Pitt believes three strange incidents dating from September 1858, March 2001 and April to be connected. They involve an aged shipwreck, its grizly crew all frozen, anthropologists trapped by a rockfall in Colorado, and a research ship in the Antartic, nearly sunk by a WWII Nazi submarine.

. "Constructed with superb craftsmanship, written with precision and tough humour, and with an extraordinary story to tell, it seems certain to enjoy a long life." TLS "The book is suffused with a wonderfully achieved sense of menace. Events are quietly encircled with by a mysterious menace, most obviously suggested by the "murder" of the subtitle, which refers to a serial killer who terrorises suburban Perth during the 1950s..." Guardian "A darkly witty memoir of sex, death and hypocrisy in small-town Australia." Daily Telegraph .

Simon Ayot, rising star at Revere Partners, is devastated when Frank Cook, senior partner at Revere and his father-in-law, kills the funding on his first major deal. But his anger turns to terror when a few days later Frank is found dead at his remote beach house.

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