Thoroughly enjoyable sea thriller. ( )

è scritto in lingua straniera a me totalmente ignota(quella dei marinai). Nonostante ciò c'è una certa forza narrativa che mi ha permesso di arrivare alla fine volando sulle onde senza (s)cazzare

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As a thriller/mystery this novel did not deliver. Maybe 20% of the book held my attention but the rest of it was quite predictable and frankly boring. For an author who gives such detail in the Grail series this book was a disappointment. I made a guess as to one of the villains in the story from the beginning, I won't be a spoiler and say who it was but his character was drawn so poorly I felt that he had to be a bad guy. My least favourite book so far for Cornwell. ( )

I consider this my favourite of Cornwell's thrillers. The book is pacy and difficult to put down. There is excellent characterisation, vivid despecriptions of people and places, and while the nautical jargon may be hard for some it is not overbearing.

Johnny is a very likeable character, a carefree rebel who has disowned his family past and who engratiates himself with those his family despise. His relationship with his sister, Georgina, makes him all the more likeable as I see it. The book has a nice twist though the more often you read it you will notice the subtle hints throughout the text. It is a book I have read several times, however.

Lord John Rossendale was a protaganist in the Sharpe series. It is unclear whether the two characters are related but they may very well be. The family history implies such in my opinion. ( )

"Killer's Wake" by Bernard Cornwell is part of Mr. Cornwell's lesser known series of novels and is a nautical thriller. Whereas Mr. Cornwell's other books are wall-to-wall testosterone fueled vengeance, his thrillers are slightly less so, ever so slightly thankfully. However, revenge and settling scores are at the forefront of this novel and plexus punching sailing action is the reader's reward. And of course the novel is chock full of the exactness and care to the minutiae detail I've come to expect from Mr. Cornwell. Come my next visit to the bookstore, I will definitely be searching the stacks for another one of Mr. Cornwell's seaworthy thrillers. ( )