At sea, the danger can''t be escaped...

Classic crime fiction from the 1960s set around a Thames mooring.

''Compton has been one of Britain''s most original and consistent novelists since the late Sixties, but he has never received the attention he deserves...Compton''s prose is fine-tuned, his human insights sharp, and his narrative pace filled with the weird synchronicities and dissonances of how violent things usually happen'' INDEPENDENT

At sea, the danger can''t be escaped...

Classic crime fiction from the 1960s set around a Thames mooring.

''Compton has been one of Britain''s most original and consistent novelists since the late Sixties, but he has never received the attention he deserves...Compton''s prose is fine-tuned, his human insights sharp, and his narrative pace filled with the weird synchronicities and dissonances of how violent things usually happen'' INDEPENDENT

At sea, the danger can''t be escaped...

Classic crime fiction from the 1960s set around a Thames mooring.

''Compton has been one of Britain''s most original and consistent novelists since the late Sixties, but he has never received the attention he deserves...Compton''s prose is fine-tuned, his human insights sharp, and his narrative pace filled with the weird synchronicities and dissonances of how violent things usually happen'' INDEPENDENT