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2000s : You don’t want to find yourself abandoned in the icy waters of the North Atlantic
North of Boston
What you need to know before your trail
Pirio Kasparov is on a fishing boat in the North Atlantic when it’s rammed by a freighter. Flung into the icy waters, she miraculously survives the four hours in the hazardous conditions before being rescued.
Pirio’s friend however disappears under the cold icy waters never to be seen again. Just what happened to cause such an accident? Pirio is not even sure it was an accident and so starts looking into the matter.
…Into the deep dark waters of Northern Canada, and the ice-cold waters of Baffin Bay and to a deeply buried secret from the past.
Travel Guide
Fishing and the icy North Atlantic Sea
“A vast wall of Streaked grey water appears above me, hovers, arches and begins to fall. I hold my breath.”
A setting of two halves. On the one hand, there’s the cold and inhospitable North Atlantic and probably the most inhospitable place to find yourself all alone. Deadly, rapid waters, freezing cold temperatures and little chance of survival if you fall overboard. Rough and ready, the world of freighters and the fishing fleets is evoked in atmospheric detail. Imagine being stranded there for hours and survive despite the odds against you? Imagine that you were the only one to do so and that your fisherman friend and owner Ned has drowned.
Then there’s the world of perfume creation.
But back to the fishing as this is the main setting . The world of hunting whales and other big mammals living in the open ocean is explored and evoked in some detail.
“The huge tusks of the males shudder in the refracting water like so many sunken Excalibur swords”
As Pirio starts to investigate what happened out there in those waters, she is helped by Russell Parnell, a journalist, and together they start to unravel a lethal plot involving the glacial whaling grounds off Baffin Island. When they start to investigate more and this takes them into even more dangerous waters for there are business men, hunters and gangster types who have some very particular interests in sailing in this part of the world. As the sea chops and changes, the current buoy the boats up and down, the stomach churning truth starts to come to light.
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