Storm Tide [Paperback]

Mel Keegan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0854492275 | ISBN-13: 978-0854492275 | Publication Date: November 1996

Sean Brodie, an American engineer on contract in Adelaide, and his partner of eight months, local boy Rob Markham, are struggling to save their relationship by getting away for a week's fishing off the South Australian coast. As a storm approaches they assist a luxury cruiser apparently in trouble, only to find they've stumbled into a drug smuggling gang's offshore headquarters. A lucky escape is only the start of their troubles - their pursuers have unexpected friends on land as well as sea. In a thriller set for the first time in MK's native Australia, the award-winning author presents another action-packed, gripping adventure. Read the first four chapters online at www.melkeegan.com!

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

A self-confessed science fiction and fantasy devotee, Mel Keegan is known for novels across a wide range of subjects, from the historical to the future action-adventure ... but certainly MK is best known for the NARC series, featuring iconic characters Jarrat and Stone. Mel lives in South Australia with an eccentric family. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 202 pages
• Publisher: Heretic Books (November 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0854492275
• ISBN-13: 978-0854492275
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,260,119 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A crisply paced thriller, August 15, 1999

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This review is from: Storm Tide (Paperback)

After a shaky bit of exposition, in which the author attempts to explain the protagonists'marital woes, this thriller shifts into high gear and never lets up until its explosive finale. Sean and Rob are lovers vacationing off the Australian coast who inadvertently run into drug smugglers and gun runners. They spend the remainder of the book trying to save their good-looking hides from sure extinction (or, in Rob's case, white slavery). Keegan has paired the boys off with a villian every bit as peripatetic and determined as The Terminator or Jason from the Friday the 13th series. Chandler is a study in sheer human relentlessness. A previous reviewer has cited as a fault the seeming lack of romantic conflict between Sean and Rob. I should say they've got conflict a-plenty! Besides, it is their steadfast, uncomplicated love which helps them survive a very dangerous situation. It also adds a note of sweetness to an otherwise very taut tale. I hope Mr. Keegan is plotting a sequel featuring Sean and Rob. Storm Tide is a hugely entertaining book. But be sure to take Drammamine first.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars HOW many impossible things can happen before breakfast?, November 28, 1999

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This review is from: Storm Tide (Paperback)

This has all the speed of EQUINOX with a sound modern day setting and another very sound relationship between two strong characters. Sean loses the plot at times, but Rob is very believable as the rookie trailing a far more dynamic partner through apparently endless trials and tribulations. Once started, the plot never slows up, which occasionally makes you wonder if the characters wouldn't just collapse from sheer exhaustion in the real world, but this is written in Keegan's usual, excellent and thoroughly absorbing style and keeps you involved with the characters and their partnership up to the very end. Keegan writes real relationships- not always perfect, not always steady, but based on two different people and an enduring love. Rob and Sean are understandable, from the start where they are trying to patch their faltering relationship to the end where Rob's insecurity comes far enough out for Sean to see it. How many writers can get inside people's heads like this? At times I wish the plot would step aside and let a little more of this wonderful detail too, but then this is a thriller. One of Keegan's best - I wish he'd write a few more in modern settings.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars aussie gay page turner, December 31, 1998

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This review is from: Storm Tide (Paperback)

Mel Keegan has been best known for his gay sci-fi novels, but this is a change of scenery, setting a modern day thriller off the coast of South Australia. Our intrepid heroes, Sean and Rob, seem to have a knack of finding their way into trouble, when all they want to do is have sex. While not the most romantic pair ever to have graced the planet, they are the archtypical strong macho characters needed for this novel to be taken seriously by the reader. The descriptions of the trials caused by floods are excellent and gave it a really eerie atmosphere which would make a great movie. Its very difficult to put down, it really rattles along and reaches an acceptable, but a little bloody conclusion. Thoroughly enjoyed, and I'd really love Mr. keegan to produced some more homegrown stuff--as there really aren't too many others writing in a similar genre.