Night Over Water

Night over the waters (Original title: Night Over Water) is a 1992 published in the Gustav Luebbe Verlag novel by the English author Ken Follett. It has been translated by Gabriele Conrad and Lore Straßl and provided with book art works by Achim Kiel. Ostensibly Follett's novel is a thriller, but the actual criminal act occupies only a small size of the book. It serves as a common thread that holds together the various storylines. Follett then changes several times the narrative perspective. There is no neutral narrator, but the story is alternately told from the point of view of different people.

Content

Figures

One of the first flights of the Flying Clippers of Pan American assembles a colorful cast passengers, who all have a reason to United Kingdom on 3 September 1939, to leave the day of the declaration of war:

  • Eddie Deakin, the flight engineer,
  • Peter Black, manager of an American shoe company,
  • Nat Ridgeway, a competitor and prospective,
  • Diana Lovesey, Englishwoman who eloped with,
  • Mark Alder, American journalist,
  • Princess Lavinia, Russian nobles,
  • Lulu Bell, American actress
  • Frank Gordon, Mafioso,
  • Ollis Field, FBI agent Gordon delivers to the United States,
  • Baron Gabon, French banker, Jew, smugglers of,
  • Carl Hartmann, German nuclear physicist, also a Jew,
  • Lord Oxenford, British fascist, must leave the UK, therefore,
  • Lady Oxenford, his American wife,
  • Percy Oxenford, be more alert son, 15 years old,
  • Margaret Oxenford, his daughter, 19 years old wants to fight the Germans,
  • Harry Marks, French jewel thief,
  • Clive Membury, Scotland Yard official,
  • Tom Luther, British businessman, owes gangsters a favor,
  • Mervyn Lovesey, British entrepreneur, manufacturer of propellers,
  • Nancy Lenehan, sister and partner at Peter Black, widowed.

There are also numerous crew members.

Action

Prior to the start experiencing Eddie Deakin that his wife has been kidnapped, he would receive instructions during the flight. Luther gives him coordinates at which the aircraft is to land. Deakin assumes that Gordon is to be freed and is on an exchange for his wife on the spot. Upon reaching the specified location off the American coast he lets out two engines, forcing the captain in order to land. However, the gangsters want to capture Hartmann, who is to return to Germany. Through a spirited appearance Percy they fail and be arrested. It dies Membury. The alleged gangster turns out to be FBI agent. The real Gordino travels by ship. The " transfer by air " only served as a distraction.

Margaret Oxenford falls in love with Harry Marks. After they had failed in England so to leave their family, they will now do this in America and live with Harry, who dreams for a long time to build a " bourgeois" existence. In the general confusion in the subjugation of the gangster Harry steals the money should be paid with the Luther the criminals and the two flee the ship.

Nancy Lenehan does everything it can to reach the Clipper in Ireland nor to prevent her brother Peter Black sold the common footwear companies in their absence. Way, she meets Lovesey, who wants to bring his wife. You need to share the honeymoon suite and come in the stormy night closer. The Loveseys seen during the flight that their relationship is over and separate. Nancy does not matter to her brother, who entices her with a stopover in Newfoundland in a boat shed and lock up there. Only thanks Lovesey she comes back on board. She finally goes with Ridgeway a trade -in to go with Lovesey to England.

A brief appearance at the beginning has Henry Faber, the "needle". Anyone familiar with this book, from the beginning by doubts Deakins theory, Gordon should be freed.

Air route

Southampton, England Foynes, Ireland Botwood, Newfoundland Shediac, St. Lawrence River planned: New York, instead forced landing off the coast of Maine

Boeing 314
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