Martin Ladd

Beyond The Sea Martin Ladd

Wreck hunter and lone yachtsman Emile Lefèvre has to get out of Indonesia-fast. But as he sails through driving tropical monsoon rain at night, a black boat, travelling at high speed with no lights, ploughs through his ketch and leaves him to face a slow, watery death. Corporal Nico Domenica and three friends from the Special Air Service Regiment are rendered unconscious while travelling in a taxi through Perth. They wake to find themselves imprisoned in an old shipping container on a small Indonesian Island. Their captors make no demands, telling them only that they will soon be released. The treatment they receive while being held is nothing their special forces training has prepared them for. Ana and Marco, passengers aboard the square-rigged tall ship Alwilda, experience sail as it used to be. Their voyage takes them through the pristine waters of Indonesia's legendary Spice Islands. But as their journey progresses, they become embroiled in events unfolding in the seas around them, and their adventure holiday becomes much more than either signed up for.