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The Midnight Watch
[Paperback - 2017]
david dyer
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Category: Fiction
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Publisher: Atlantic Books Uk | ISBN: 9781782397823 | Pages: 336
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As theTitanicand her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on theSS Californiansitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that theTitanicfired. He alerted the captain, Stanley Lord, who was sleeping in the chartroom below, but Lord did not come to the bridge. Eight rockets were fired during the dark hours of the midnight watch, and eight rockets were ignored. The next morning, theTitanicwas at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. When they learned of the extent of the tragedy, Lord and Stone did everything they could to hide their role in the disaster, but pursued by newspapermen, lawyers, and political leaders in America and England, their terrible secret was eventually revealed.The Midnight Watchis a fictional telling of what may have occurred that night on theSS Californian, and the resulting desperation of Officer Stone and Captain Lord in the aftermath of their inaction.Told not only from the perspective of theSS Californiancrew, but also through the eyes of a family of third-class passengers who perished in the disaster, the narrative is drawn together by Steadman, a tenacious Boston journalist who does not rest until the truth is found.The Midnight Watchis a powerful and dramatic debut novel--the result of many years of research in Liverpool, London, New York, and Boston, and informed by the author's own experiences as a ship's officer and a lawyer.

About the Author

David Dyer spent many years as a lawyer at the London legal practice whose parent firm represented the Titanic s owners in 1912. He has also worked as a cadet and ship s officer on a wide range of merchant vessels, having graduated with distinction from the Australian Maritime College. He now teaches English literature in Sydney. This is his first novel.

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