By Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Smith units his vividly reasonable novels at the razor's area among human braveness and nature's wrath. In Hungry because the Sea, this grasp storyteller takes us to the frigid South Atlantic, the place one guy fights for his life-- and for redemption.
Nicholas Berg is on a bold rescue project. one among his former ships is being lashed opposed to the cliffs of Cape Alarm and is surrounded through survivors clinging to their boats. Berg has gambled every thing on attaining the Golden Adventurer before a competitor and a violent typhoon to win a fortune in salvage charges. If he succeeds, despite the fact that, the true risk will purely simply commence . . ..
From the ability of a continuing ocean to the starvation of guys to outlive upon her, this can be a towering novel of event, love and the bold of the human soul.
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