Sail
by James Patterson and Howard Roughan

Review by
Carol Waterkeyn

American best-selling author James Patterson has teamed up for the second time with fellow countryman and writer Howard Roughan for this latest thriller.

Katherine Dunne, a 45-year-old heart surgeon who lost her husband in a scuba diving accident 4 years ago, has remarried. Her new husband is lawyer Peter Carlyle, but all is not well in the household and Katherine’s relationship with her three children has suffered. So Peter is left behind while she takes Carrie, Mark and Ernie on a sailing adventure with her former brotherin- law.

What starts as a leisurely trip to cement family bonds, ends as a fight for survival after a desperate catalogue of disasters. US Coast Guard Andrew Tatem cannot understand why there is no trace of the yacht or the family. Something just isn’t right.

This is a real page-turner, written in a sparse style but with lots of action and some sexual references.

Paperback book
Published by Arrow Books
ISBN 9780099538882
Price: £7.99