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An around-the-world, single-handed sailing race of the most extreme kind--no stopping, no assistance--requiring each lone sailor to spend half the total race distance (roughly 13,000 miles) fighting this nightmarish, merciless sea. The race is the Vendee Globe, and The Godforsaken Sea is the story of the 1996-1997 competition. Fourteen men and two women began the race in Les Sables-d'Olonne, France. Six officially finished; three were wrecked and rescued; one sailor performed emergency surgery on himself mid-race; one perished. This is high adventure of the most gripping, perilous sort, demanding a tightly controlled, suspenseful narrative: "Visualize a never-ending series of five- or six-story buildings, with sloping sides of various angles ... moving towards [the sailors] at forty miles an hour. Some of the time, the top one or two stories will collapse on top of them."

New! I have it on order and will get it as soon as Amazon gets it and ships. Can't stop once I start his books.

Other Clancy titles (mostly featuring Jack Ryan as main character) I have enjoyed:

war on drugs novel in Columbia
war with Japan novel
Iranians unleash Ebola virus on the country


international terrorists
anti-terrorists group (John Clark )
US & USSR at war
middle east terrorists get atomic bomb
John Clark CIA novel