A suspense novel in which a man once forced out of teaching must confront a past incident again. Lost time, the memory of a city, and relationships between men and women intertwine in Tatsuo Shimizu’s hard-edged prose.

The city he thought he had left behind calls him back to the center of an old case.

A maritime adventure romance by Wilbur Smith, a master of adventure fiction. Dangerous seas, the desire for treasure, and competing ambitions collide in a large-scale action narrative.

Desire for the sea and treasure drives the story with the full energy of adventure fiction.