The Fifth Continent

von Matthew Howgego

428 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Three friends. A crashed aircraft. A fortune in cocaine. One decision that will follow them for years.Take a trip back to the noughties - before smartphones tracked our every movement and when some secrets were still possible to keep.On a calm summer morning on the English Channel, three friends set out on a routine fishing trip. Within hours, their lives will never be the same.When a light aircraft crashes into the sea in front of them, they don't hesitate. They pull the injured pilot from the wreckage.Then they see the packages.Cocaine. More than they could ever have imagined.With the pilot injured, the wreckage sinking and no one else around, three ordinary men are presented with the kind of opportunity that comes only once in a lifetime.They take it.

By the time they hand the pilot over to the authorities, they are already keeping a secret that could change everything.What follows draws them into a world they were never meant to enter. As the police begin asking questions and dangerous men search for what was lost, friendship gives way to suspicion, and every attempt to escape the consequences pulls them deeper.Some choices leave a mark. Some secrets refuse to stay buried. And long after that morning on the Channel, the consequences of what they have done are still waiting.Set against the wide skies, shingle beaches and desolate landscape of Romney Marsh and Dungeness, The Fifth Continent is an atmospheric British crime thriller about friendship, greed, loyalty and consequence - and the price ordinary people can pay for one irresistible choice.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798246558072
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published