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"PIRACY, CONSPIRACY ... MURDER? An influential shipping firm, Goldwaters, pays Eric Ward a large retainer to work for them, much to his surprise. Then one of the Goldwaters fleet, the Sierra Nova, is ""arrested"" and is unable to leave port. The reason? A crew member, Edwards, has been caught in possession of drugs and is accused of smuggling--but now he's been removed from the ship, why can't the voyage go ahead? Then Edwards is murdered on his way to the courtroom. Ward soon finds himself sinking into the dangerous world of international conspiracy and modern-day piracy."

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Good on atmosphere. -- Newcastle Journal, praise for the series Roy Lewis is a writer who believes in keeping his readers on their toes with plenty of twists and surprises. -- Daily Telegraph (UK), praise for the author Tense, impressively evocative, and related in a refreshingly old-fashioned manner. -- Chicago Tribune, praise for the series Tightly written, well-paced, and relentlessly accurate. -- Oxford Times, praise for the series

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Roy Lewis (1933-2019) was a well-established crime writer with more than sixty novels to his name. He lived in the north of England, where he set many of his books. He was a former college principal and Inspector of Schools who ran business training programs and had business interests in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. His three children are all lawyers. He also wrote books on law under the pen name J. R. Lewis. British narrator John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009. Lee is also an accomplished stage actor and wrote and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit.

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