A Bridge of Magpies

From NY Times and International bestselling author Geoffrey Jenkins comes a mystery-packed adventure novel that takes readers to the forbidding coast of Southwest Africa where sunken ships, a German U-boat, and Cold War espionage collide. For fans of Clive Cussler's ocean adventure novels. Struan Weddell, ex-South African naval officer, is recalled to duty and sent by his former C-in-C on a mysterious mission to remote Possession Island located along the forbidding Diamond Coast of Southwest Africa. There he is to become its Headman and police the isolated island outcrop. Upon arrival he finds he has been preceded by Jutta Walsh, a determined young woman on a mission of her own. Also there, he finds an enigmatic Asian fisherman known as Kaptein Denny, who has been seeking for nearly thirty years an elusive prize dearer to him than life itself. These three converge on a godforsaken strip of coast dominated by the Bridge of Magpies, a natural arch of rock soaring two hundred feet out of the sea, near which lies the rusting wreck of the ocean liner 'City of Baroda', sunk by a Nazi submarine during the WWII. But the unexpected arrival of a Korean fishing trawler and her deadly crew precipitates into a violent confrontation which reaches its climax when Struan, Jutta, and Denny, in a small motor-launch, must pit their wits and skills against the overwhelming odds presented by the no-longer-mysterious trawler and its Cold War objective. But the sudden spectral reappearance of a sunken U-boat will upend everyone's agenda...