Scorpion Reef
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
On the sunbaked, treacherous waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a man finds himself ensnared in a web of deception, greed, and murder when a seemingly routine sailing voyage turns into a desperate fight for survival. Scorpion Reef, published by Charles Williams — one of the most criminally underrated masters of mid-20th-century noir — chronicles the story of an ordinary man drawn into extraordinary danger when a mysterious woman and a deadly secret aboard a doomed vessel upend his world. Written with the taut, sun-drenched tension that defined the best of American hardboiled fiction, the novel uncovers a conspiracy that grows more perilous with every nautical mile. Williams, a protégé of the Gold Medal paperback era and a writer championed by fellow craftsmen for his lean, propulsive prose, constructs a maritime thriller of uncommon psychological depth. Where many crime writers rely on urban grit, Williams draws his menace from vast, indifferent open water — an arena where escape is an illusion and every character's true nature is eventually stripped bare. Scorpion Reef stands as a testament to the power of place in noir fiction, leaving the reader to wonder just how far one person will go when cornered at the edge of the world.
Author: Charles Williams
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Cassell & Company Ltd
Genre: Thriller
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
On the sunbaked, treacherous waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a man finds himself ensnared in a web of deception, greed, and murder when a seemingly routine sailing voyage turns into a desperate fight for survival. Scorpion Reef, published by Charles Williams — one of the most criminally underrated masters of mid-20th-century noir — chronicles the story of an ordinary man drawn into extraordinary danger when a mysterious woman and a deadly secret aboard a doomed vessel upend his world. Written with the taut, sun-drenched tension that defined the best of American hardboiled fiction, the novel uncovers a conspiracy that grows more perilous with every nautical mile. Williams, a protégé of the Gold Medal paperback era and a writer championed by fellow craftsmen for his lean, propulsive prose, constructs a maritime thriller of uncommon psychological depth. Where many crime writers rely on urban grit, Williams draws his menace from vast, indifferent open water — an arena where escape is an illusion and every character's true nature is eventually stripped bare. Scorpion Reef stands as a testament to the power of place in noir fiction, leaving the reader to wonder just how far one person will go when cornered at the edge of the world.