Sleeping Woman Island
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April 1937. Merchant seaman Miguel Jordan Chiriazis, having stoically chosen a side in the Spanish Civil War, unexpectedly receives a startling assignment: leading a motley crew of mercenaries—or rather, pirates—to blow up Soviet transports carrying military supplies across the Aegean Sea to the Republicans in Spain. Arriving at a base on the tiny island of Sleeping Woman, Jordan encounters its owners—Baron Catellos and his wife, Lena, a delightful mature woman who, in cold despair, seeks salvation from her hopeless fate. While epic battles unfold at sea and passions rage in hearts, far from the island, in Istanbul, two friends, caught in opposing sides during the civil war, are playing their own chess game, which is approaching a bloody endgame...
Arturo Pérez-Reverte is a former war journalist, the celebrated creator of the Captain Diego Alatriste series, winner of prestigious literary awards, and author of brilliant historical, military, adventure, and detective novels translated into forty languages and selling over 27 million copies. His "Island of the Sleeping Woman" is a novel about war, duty, revenge, and love. A novel about the sea, where only the certain remains. Friendship. Loyalty. Hard work. Danger. Love at sea is a fleeting, unreliable mirage. It exists, but it's not worth believing.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte is a former war journalist, the celebrated creator of the Captain Diego Alatriste series, winner of prestigious literary awards, and author of brilliant historical, military, adventure, and detective novels translated into forty languages and selling over 27 million copies. His "Island of the Sleeping Woman" is a novel about war, duty, revenge, and love. A novel about the sea, where only the certain remains. Friendship. Loyalty. Hard work. Danger. Love at sea is a fleeting, unreliable mirage. It exists, but it's not worth believing.
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