Force 12
2001
First Published
3.23
Average Rating
368
Number of Pages
In the chilling tradition of The Perfect Storm, an ocean yacht race contested, literally, to the death. Rex Wyman, a world-famous software billionaire, is determined to win the world's longest and most challenging yacht race, from San Francisco to Japan via the Alaska—through some of the roughest seas imaginable. He sets out onboard the Victory, a 75-million-dollar racing yacht designed and navigated entirely by computer. Wyman desperately needs this his business empire is crumbling, his assets dwindling, and only a public-relations coup like this can save him. But not even his girlfriend, a beautiful and gifted computer programmer, realizes the lengths he will go to in order to win. Meanwhile, he must evade a long list of secret enemies intent on making this ocean race his last one. So, when an enormous sub-arctic storm engulfs the Victory, the stakes become not just win-or-lose but a matter of life and death.
Avg Rating
3.23
Number of Ratings
105
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3 STARS
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Author
James Stewart Thayer
Author · 15 books
James Thayer is the son of a wheat farmer, and he was raised in Spokane and the farm country in eastern Washington. He graduated from Washington State University and the University of Chicago Law School, and now teaches novel writing at the University of Washington extension school where in 2015 he received the Excellence in Teaching Award in the Arts, Writing and Humanities. The New York Times Book Review says his "writing is smooth and clear. Deceptively simple, it wastes no words, and it has a rhythm that only confident stylists achieve.” His The Essential Guide to Writing a Novel is a leading manual for fiction writers. Thayer is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the International Thriller Writers. He and his family live in Seattle.
