"Join a meticulously planned art-world heist and enter dangerous waters in this beautifully written and eloquently powerful thriller."
There is a real strength to this novel, it is both a moving and powerful tribute to a lost way of life as much as it is a stinging, slicing thriller. In 1990’s Boston, two men are joined forever as one stumbles through the edge of an art museum robbery masterminded by the other. While very much a work of fiction, this novel is seeped in the history of the Long Island fishermen and an unsolved art museum robbery.
Author Simon Gaul writes with an eloquent pen, the words captured my attention, sank into my thoughts, and evoked my emotions. I was able to visualise, to see and feel these two worlds as they collided. Two families are set into play, with the history of each shaping the main characters. The two men almost sit within their own very personal story, the connection taking moments but shaping their lives.
The other characters are vitally important and beautifully drawn, understanding of their placement comes, even if they are on the page for a moment. The seascape became a part of me, the danger, the love, how it enters the soul, while the descriptions of grief moved me with their stark knowing simplicity.
The writing kept me entirely engaged, I didn't think ahead or wonder what was to come, I remained in each and every moment and that is why this book joins our LoveReading Star Books and also sits as a Liz Pick of the Month. Haunting yet present, action-packed and energised yet centred and quiet, No Man’s Land is a beautiful thrilling tale I can highly recommend.
Boston, March 1990: During the St Patrick's Day revelries, thirteen priceless works of art - a Vermeer, Rembrandts, a Manet - are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. With no leads for the police to follow, it seems as though they've all but evaporated into a bleak New England night…
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Boston, March 1990: During the St Patrick's Day revelries, thirteen priceless works of art - a Vermeer, Rembrandts, a Manet - are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. With no leads for the police to follow, it seems as though they've all but evaporated into a bleak New England night… On the South Fork of Long Island - one hundred and fifty miles away - Jake Dealer is amongst the last of a three-hundred-year tradition of America's seafaring history. A fisherman born with an innate ability to read the Atlantic's unforgiving waters, from which he ekes out a living; his horizons defined only by his family and the ocean.
No Man's Land features in the following genres: Books of the Month, Crime / Thriller Pick of the Month, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Recommendations, Star Books, Action Adventure, Crime and Mystery, General Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, c 1990 to c 1999, Thriller and Suspense, Sea stories, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Forgery, falsification and theft of artworks, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Hardback. £18.00, down from the £20.00 cover price. In Stock.
No Man's Land was written by Simon Gaul and published by whitefox Publishing an imprint of Whitefox Publishing Ltd
No Man's Land has 368 pages
£18.00, reduced from £20.00. In Stock.
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