Assault on a Queen

✍ Scribed by Finney, Jack

• Book ID: 107278564
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 132 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Fire Island in early May, after the winter ice melts and before the summer crowd arrives, is the ideal time to raise a submarine from the dead.

Six adventurers -- five men and a woman -- salvage a World War I German submarine from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. They will use it in executing a daring idea, an idea methodically planned and timed with scientific precision. Their goal seems fantastic, but if they can bring it off each one of them will be rich for life.

Only the factor of human relations is not taken into account, and the tension between these six people begins to mount unbearably as the moment looms closer for an Assault on a Queen.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jack Finney conceives such wonderful and convincing plots, in which people carry out daring and completely unheard-of acts of crime, that it is evident the world of the lawless lost a brilliant potential member when Finney decided to become an author. Many of his short stories have appeared over the last decade in practically all of the major national magazines.

So instead of becoming the Professor Moriarty of the twentieth century, Mr. Finney lives quietly in Mill Valley, California, with his wife, Margeurite, and their two small children, Marguerite and Kenneth.