The Eye of Saba: The King's Curse: 1 (The Patrick Redman Thriller) - Couverture souple

Rothery, Michael

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ISBN 13 : 9798235119482

Editeur : Weatherdeck Books, 2026

Synopsis

The Eye of Saba: The King's Curse is a hard-edged adventure thriller soaked in saltwater, blood, desire and bad luck - the kind of story where paradise has teeth and every beautiful thing carries a debt.
Patrick Redman is a Royal Navy petty officer with a sailor's appetite for danger, drink and trouble. In Mombasa, a spell of shore leave becomes something darker when a dive on a remote reef uncovers an ancient gold pendant: a relic linked to Solomon, Sheba and a curse old enough to have outlived empires. The find should be a fortune. Instead, it becomes a weight - passed hand to hand, hidden in lockers, lied about to police, and carried across oceans like contraband from another age.

Around Patrick, the world begins to buckle. A freak storm turns a dive trip into a fight for survival. A shark attack leaves grief where laughter used to be. A warship that once felt solid and rational becomes a floating catalogue of near-disasters: snapped gear, men overboard, fires, failures, accidents that come too close together to dismiss. Patrick is a man trained to trust drills, charts and machinery - but even he begins to wonder whether the sea has marked him, or whether the ancient Eye has started collecting on its curse.

The novel moves with the dirty realism of lived-in naval fiction: mess-deck banter, tropical heat, engine oil, wet steel, cheap beer, official lies and the blunt fatalism of men who work too close to the sea to romanticise it. But beneath the grit runs a mythic current - Solomon's bargain, Sheba's legacy, a stolen talisman, and a covenant that may still have power in the modern world. The past does not sit quietly in a museum case here. It surfaces from the reef, green-eyed and glittering, and drags the present down with it.

Patrick himself is no polished hero. He is flawed, impulsive, often selfish, sometimes brave in spite of himself. He betrays, blunders, survives, and keeps moving because stopping would mean facing the wreckage behind him. The people around him - Hannelore, Thomas, Laura, Lisbeth, Jax, shipmates and strangers - are not decorative passengers in his story. They are vivid, damaged, funny, dangerous, loyal, grieving, hungry for escape. Their choices give the book its human bite: love tangled with guilt, friendship tested by fear, and survival bought at prices no one wants to name.

From the reefs off Kenya to the brutal working decks of a Royal Navy destroyer, from academic whispers about ancient Africa to backstreet deals for passage on a Russian freighter, The Eye of Saba: The King's Curse blends maritime thriller, archaeological mystery and psychological survival story into something raw and propulsive. It is a novel about what men take, what the sea takes back, and what happens when an object meant to stay buried is brought into the light.
No ghosts need appear for this story to feel haunted. The curse may be superstition. The accidents may be coincidence. The guilt may be doing all the work. But by the time Patrick climbs toward Mombasa again - hunted by conscience, law, and the consequences of his own decisions - the question is no longer whether the Eye is cursed.

The question is whether anyone who touches it can walk away clean.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

'"Write about what you know and write truly" was the rule Ernest Hemingway (my 15th cousin, according to ancestry.com) lived by. He believed in utilizing personal experiences and true emotions to make a story believable. And that's what informs my own writing. You don't need to know the sea to be swept away by it. My thrillers are not written for sailors alone. They are written for anyone who loves suspense, danger, strong characters, and stories that pull you irresistibly onward. Because it's what I know, the maritime world provides the setting, but it is never a barrier: the language is clear, the stakes are human, and the drama is universal. You won't need a chart, a glossary, or any nautical experience to follow the story-only a taste for tension, intrigue, and adventure. '

Michael Rothery

Michael Rothery is a lifelong writer whose fiction is shaped by decades at sea. He began writing poems and letters long before turning to full-length fiction in 2012. He served twenty-five years in the Royal Navy, gaining extensive operational and maritime experience that now underpins the realism of his novels.

Alongside his writing career, he qualified as a yachtmaster and worked for a time on yacht deliveries. In 2015, he bought a sailing yacht in Greece and sailed solo to the Caribbean via the Atlantic Islands. He went on to cruise the Lesser Antilles for several years before crossing to the Azores. In 2024, he sold his boat and came ashore, bringing with him a lifetime of naval service, blue-water sailing, and firsthand maritime knowledge that informs every aspect of his writing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Weatherdeck Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235119482
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 404
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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