Twelve seconds to live
2002, First Edition. London : Heinemann. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #229235
ISBN: 0434008745
Physical description; 310 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; NOT price-clipped. First edition and first printing. Summary; The mine is an impartial killer and a lethal challenge to any volunteer in the Special Countermeasures of the Royal Navy. They are brave, lonely men with something to prove - or nothing left to lose - as the gentle whirr of the activated fuse marks possibly the last twelve seconds of their lives. Subjects; Great Britain. -- Royal Navy -- Officers -- Fiction. World War, (1939-1945) -- Naval operations, British -- Fiction. Minesweepers -- Fiction. Genres; Sea stories. Fiction.
Price: €10.00