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Librarian's Note: Alternate cover edition for ISBN-13: 9781907411106
WELCOME TO A WORLD WHERE OIL IS SCARCE.
BUT LOYALTY IS SCARCER.
Nailer's time is running out. He's getting too big for his work - stripping copper wire from old oil tankers - and once he's off the crew he's on his own, stuck in a shack on the beach with no food, no money and no way of earning his keep.
He has one last chance. The thing all crew members dream about, a lucky strike, has hit in the shape of a clipper ship beached during the last hurricane. If he can hold off the rest of the scavengers long enough to get the oil out, he might just have a future.
But oil's not the only thing on the ship. And what Nailer finds is going to change his life for ever.
Alternate cover edition for ISBN 9781907411106
WELCOME TO A WORLD WHERE OIL IS SCARCE.
BUT LOYALTY IS SCARCER.
Nailer's time is running out. He's getting too big for his work - stripping copper wire from old oil tankers - and once he's off the crew he's on his own, stuck in a shack on the beach with no food, no money and no way of earning his keep.
He has one last chance. The thing all crew members dream about, a lucky strike, has hit in the shape of a clipper ship beached during the last hurricane. If he can hold off the rest of the scavengers long enough to get the oil out, he might just have a future.
But oil's not the only thing on the ship. And what Nailer finds is going to change his life for ever.
Alternate cover edition for ISBN 9781907411106
Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
323 pages
Language
English
Published
May 1, 2010
Publisher
Liittle, Brown and Company
Editions
34 editions
ISBN-10
031608011X
ISBN-13
9780316080118