Medusa / The Doomed Oasis

Összefoglaló

Medusa
HMS Medusa is an obsolete frigate with an ill-assorted crew and an insecure captain. Why has she been dispatched under secret orders to be a sitting duck in one of the most vital ports of the Mediterranean? drawn into a close involvement with Gareth Lloyd Jones, the Medusa's captain, ex-adventurer Mike Steele begins a dangerous quest for answers. As past and present combine in a series of violent events, Steele finds himself at the centre of an international crisis to which only Lloyd Jones and the Medusa may hold the key.

The Doomed Oasis
This is the story of two men and their fight to save an oasis from the encroaching sands of the Empty Quarter. Colonel Whitaker is a legendary desert figure obsessed by oil. His illegitimate son David is a tough from the Cardiff docks who, wanted by the police, escapes to Arabia to become a geologist. The tragic friction that develops between them is revealed against a haunting background of shifting sands and Bedouin treachery.