On the Knife Edge - Pratt, S Mason
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On the Knife Edge, a timely spy thriller, casts the reader into the throes of the current war in Ukraine. Part historical novel, it is based on the true story of the container ship El Faro, which sank off the Bahamas almost nine years ago with no survivors, including five graduates of Maine Maritime Academy. Second mate MELANIE is unaware that her former love, JACK PIERCE, is now a CIA assassin who intends to blow up her ship. They fall in love again, before she learns he's dangerous, before the hurricane hits. Jack is obsessed with Melanie, who is plagued by her brother's drowning and…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
On the Knife Edge, a timely spy thriller, casts the reader into the throes of the current war in Ukraine. Part historical novel, it is based on the true story of the container ship El Faro, which sank off the Bahamas almost nine years ago with no survivors, including five graduates of Maine Maritime Academy. Second mate MELANIE is unaware that her former love, JACK PIERCE, is now a CIA assassin who intends to blow up her ship. They fall in love again, before she learns he's dangerous, before the hurricane hits. Jack is obsessed with Melanie, who is plagued by her brother's drowning and survivor's guilt. She runs from Jack, who follows her to the North Maine Woods and Mount Katahdin's "Knife Edge," where they must fight for their lives.
Autorenporträt
After graduating from Bowdoin College "cum laude," Mason Pratt served as an intelligence officer and French linguist with the XVIII Airborne Corps and its 82nd Airborne Division. He then attended Harvard Law School, and practiced law for 47 years with Maine's largest law firm, Pierce Atwood. He is a member of the Maine Writers' and Publishers' Alliance and the Southeastern Writers' Association. This is his second novel; his Maine North Woods murder mystery, The Truth About Hannah White, was published in 2015.Mason lives with his wife on Sebago Lake in Standish, and owns a condo on Portland's Munjoy Hill.