The lost chart
Gunn, Neil M., 1891-19732024
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Unlike most of Gunn's novels, 'The Lost Chart' is set in a city - the city of Glasgow and its sea approaches. The untypical choice of background for the story is not the only departure from Gunn's usual approach to his novels. The book is also a thriller. The story unfolds in a social ambience of fear and speculation within which certain sinister political forces are at work. Nuclear war is a possibility, if not a certainty. Shipping executive Dermot Cameron gets involved in a street brawl, loses the chart of the approaches to a remote Hebridean island and finds himself in a tussle between the British Secret Service and a locally-based communist fifth-column. The plot turns almost exclusively on the date of a looming crisis, and the imminence of that date pervades the thoughts and feelings of those in conflict with a locally-based sinister and elusive enemy.
Main title:
The lost chart / Neil M. Gunn.
Author:
Gunn, Neil M., 1891-1973, author
Imprint:
Dunbeath : Whittles Publishing, 2024.
Collation:
256 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
This edition originally published: Edinburgh: FrontList, 2003.
ISBN:
9781849955843 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.912
LC class:
PR6013.U64
Language:
English
BRN:
4018017