As many people know, I love Paul Hardisty's Claymore Straker action-packed environmental thriller series. Well, he's now written a standalone literary novel, also set in exotic locations such as Africa and the Caribbean.
But before I show you the cover of Turbulent Wake, you must read the blurb.
*drum roll*
Turbulent Wake: Read the blurb
Ethan Scofield returns to the place of his birth to bury his father. Hidden in one of the upstairs rooms of the old man’s house he finds a strange manuscript, a collection of stories that seems to cover the whole of his father’s turbulent life. As his own life starts to unravel, Ethan works his way through the manuscript, trying to find answers to the mysteries that have plagued him since he was a child. What happened to his little brother? Why was his mother taken from him? And why, in the end, when there was no one else left, did his own father push him away?
Swinging from the coral cays of the Caribbean to the dangerous deserts of Yemen and the wild rivers of Africa, Turbulent Wake is a bewitching, powerful and deeply moving story of love and loss ... of the indelible damage we do to those closest to us and, ultimately, of the power of redemption in a time of change.
Sound great? It certainly does!
I can't wait to read it - Paul's writing is outstanding
and his books are filled with emotion.
I can't wait to read it - Paul's writing is outstanding
and his books are filled with emotion.
AND NOW.... *drum roll*
Are you ready????
I love this cover! You know how a picture speaks a thousand words? Well I can't wait to read the thousands of words behind this one! It's SO moody - calm on the surface but hiding plenty of trouble (just look at that stormy sky!). Plus what's behind the mist? A search into the unknown, perhaps? All of the Orenda covers reveal something about the story inside.
We'll just have to wait until next year to find out more!
We'll just have to wait until next year to find out more!
Turbulent Wake: Read about author Paul Hardisty
Canadian Paul Hardisty has spent 25 years working all over the world as an engineer, hydrologist and environmental scientist. He has roughnecked on oil rigs in Texas, explored for gold in the Arctic, mapped geology in Eastern Turkey (where he was befriended by PKK rebels), and rehabilitated water wells in the wilds of Africa. He was in Ethiopia in 1991 as the Mengistu regime fell, and was bumped from one of the last flights out of Addis Ababa by bureaucrats and their families fleeing the rebels. In 1993 he survived a bomb blast in a café in Sana’a, and was one of the last Westerners out of Yemen before the outbreak of the 1994 civil war. Paul is a university professor and CEO of the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). He is a sailor, a private pilot, keen outdoorsman, conservation volunteer, and lives in Western Australia.
Find Paul Hardisty on Twitter - @Hardisty_Paul
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