Fireprint (U)

Hallam Cane, a British engineer, arrives at desolate Cape Agulhas-the southernmost tip of Africa-to join a geological research team in their search for undersea energy. All is not as it appears at first sight. Why has the project been beset by so many unexplained accidents? Why has the Russian diving team trying to salvage the wreck of a ship sunk in 1904? Why is an American scientist prepared to pay well over the odds for a stretch of barren land? In an atmosphere of fear and suspicion Hallam and his girlfriend, Maris, struggle against great odds before they reach the answers. An unusual and imaginative thriller by the author of A Ravel of Waters. "Geoffrey Jenkins can write with rare compelling fervour." Times Literary Supplement