A gunrunner's hunt for a fortune leads to a life-and-death struggle in
Communist China in New York Times-bestselling author Jack Higgins's
very first novel.
Mark Hagen is a far cry from the man he once was as a naval officer in
World War II. Broken down and drunk, he's been reduced to living outside
the law, gunrunning and smuggling with his dilapidated boat.
Then he rescues a woman from attackers in Macao. She's alone, she needs
help--and she claims to know the whereabouts of a quarter-million
dollars in gold, lying in a scuttled craft at the bottom of a lagoon in
the blighted marshlands of southern China. With this one quick score,
Hagen could change his luck for good.
Unfortunately, he's not the only one looking for the gold. There's the
Chinese. And the Russians. And so many others.
But there's only one Mark Hagen--and he's not about to give up easily .
. .
Originally published in 1963 under the name Harry Patterson, Sad Wind
from the Sea is a searing debut set in the dangerous criminal
underworld of the Pacific Rim, a gripping read that showcases the
talents of a young writer whom Tom Clancy would one day hail as "the
master."