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Many ships lie at the bottom of the largest freshwater lake in the world. Lake Superior, over 1300 feet deep, has water so cold and clean that wood does not deteriorate. In the 1890s, the forests around the lake were cut and the timber rafted to Duluth or another port. Not only ships lie at the bottom of the lake, but piles of old growth timber are there also. Michael Tanner and Mary Whitney travel from Seattle, the scene of INNER PASSAGES, to the Wisconsin shore of Lake Superior after Tanner is asked to be the PR front man for the Chequamegon Resource Recovery Company of Ashland, WI. George Charles Anderson, CEO of CRR wants to bring up some of these rafts from the bottom of Lake Superior and sell the high grade hardwoods thus salvaged. Tanner's wife, Mary Whitney, a member of the board of the Whitney Corporation, and also an avid sailor, decided to accompany him. The family fortune has its roots in the lumber industry around Lake Superior., but she's never been there. Since the accident to her yacht will prevent her from racing off the Seattle coast this summer, she figures she can also do some lake sailing instead. I'm a sucker for crime novels with an historical basis and this one has that. Brookins has given us a quick overview of the turn of the century industry, as well as some exciting sailing scenes on the lake that can be as dangerous as the open sea, and some modern day hanky-panky. Tanner and Whitney are real people with a strong relationship. I'd like to have them on my side. The book can be read as a stand alone or as a sequel to the previous one. It works either way.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, December 2002
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