Tidefall

Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1953. Hardback. Couple of very small tears to edge of D/J. Slight browning to spine of D/J. When Captain Saxby Nolan returned to Port Barron, Nova Scotia, he had a fortune in his pocket, a longing for respectability, and a grim recall of the laughter that had mocked him through his childhood. Seventeen years Sax Nolan had been away. In those seventeen years he had smuggled aliens and narcotics, scuttled ships for insurance money, run bootleg liquor from Canada and the Indies into American ports. He had made capital of a quick mind and a quick pair of social graces. Now the man he had made of himself was a finished product - ruthless and arrogant, with a power about him that warned men off yet challeneged them, that attracted women of quality yet at the same time repelled them. Here is a stron, masculine story told by a strong, masculine talent. The world of Sax Nolan is a violent place where men of action pit their resources against society and the elements and each other; and only a Conrad or Kipling or Jack London has written of that world with the drive and familiarity of Thomas Raddall. 309 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.