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Published in 1988 by Michael Joseph
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Bernard Cornwell
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| Nick Sandman has one love of his life - his beautifully restored old sailing boat; and one dream - to take his boat out to sea where there are no rules, no fighting. The reality is a battered body, a wrecked boat, no money and no job.
A reluctant hero, winner of the VC in the FalkSands, invalided out of the army with a disability pension, Nick discharges himself from hospital, barely able to walk. His father is in jail for fraud, his home and possessions impounded, his ex-wife is hounding him for maintenance. All he still owns is his boat, Sycorax. But when he reaches the Devon mooring, he finds the boat beached and wrecked and her place usurped by a glistening ocean-going yacht, Wildtrack. Everything seems owned by one man - the urbane, powerful television personality Tony Bannister.
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