Title: The publishers must be the ones who are desperate
Product review: This is the story of the world war two voyage of a fictional merchant ship with a dangerous cargo of industrial alcohol and six mysterious American passengers. The "Rosa Dartle" is not a happy ship - in fact it's a positively dysfunctional one. Storms, U-boats and the Luftwaffe are the ingredients added to simmering internal dissention.And yet the pot never quite seems to come to the boil. There are too many characters, and at only about 75,000 words there isn't enough space to fully develop all of them into people you can care about. The storylines are clever, but most of them are very casually resolved.The real story is why this simple tale, first published in 1961, should suddenly be reprinted in 2000. It's not a dire story by any means, but surely there must be better new submissions coming in?
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