The Vaporetto Driver

ISBN-13: 9780992859930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 326 str.

MR Kelvin T. Robertson

Opis

Working alongside his father on their fishing boat, the Lurach -Aon, Rory is content that is until a tragic accident causes the loss of their boat. He not only loses the boat but also his livelihood. Forced to leave the island he grew up on he finds work in the North Sea oil industry as a deck hand on a supply vessel. Buffeted by the stormy North Sea the ship requires repairs and is sent to dry dock in Edinburgh for a short time. Granted shore leave he goes into the city where by chance he meets a friend from home, a student who introduces him to a different side to life. Awakened to the pleasures and possibilities of the big city he accepts an invitation from a shipmate to visit Las Vegas and there his life changes when he meets Nadia and falls in love. However she is not all that she seems, her brother is an aspiring Mafioso and none too happy when he discovers that his sister is becoming attached to a foreigner. From that moment on Rory becomes entangled in a Mafia plot that has dire consequences for both him and Nadia.