The White Voyage【電子書籍】[ John Christopher ]

＜p＞Dublin to Dieppe to Amsterdam. A routine trip for the cargo ship ＜em＞Kreya＜/em＞, her Danish crew and handful of passengers. Brief enough for undercurrents to remain below the surface and secrets to stay buried.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The portents, though, are ominous. ‘There are three signs,’ the spiritualist warned. ‘The first is when the beast walks free. The second is when water breaks iron … The third is when horses swim like fishes.’＜/p＞ ＜p＞Captain Olsen, a self-confessed connoisseur of human stupidity, has no patience with the irrational, and little interest in the messiness of relationships.＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘I condemn no man or woman,‘ he declares, ‘however savage and enormous their sins, as long as they do not touch the ＜em＞Kreya＜/em＞. But anything that touches the ship is different. In this small world, I am God. I judge, I punish, and I need not give my reasons.’＜/p＞ ＜p＞Olsen’s philosophy is challenged in the extreme when, in mountainous seas, disaster strikes: the rudder smashed beyond repair, a ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る