North Slope, by Michael Parker
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North Slope, by Michael Parker
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North Slope is a barren desert of ice in Alaska that stretches from the Brooks Mountains to the Beaufort Sea, frozen during the winter clear to the North Pole. It is in this wilderness that the Fyffe Oil Company struggles in its search for oil. Andrew Fyffe, owner of the company, finds time and money are running out. On the rig a man has been killed; suspicion and fear are rampant among the drilling crews as they continue their superhuman efforts before Fyffe goes bust. The one man who (Fyffe believes) can save the company is McKinnon, once a famous wildcat oil man, but now a drunk, a drop-out. Fyffe kidnaps McKinnon from a drinking spree and flies him up to the oil rig, Fyffe One. When McKinnon sobers up he quickly sees he will need all his old resourcefulness, skill and courage to save the rig from catastrophe. The violent action of this story takes place against the background, strongly conveyed, of Alaskan Arctic winter and night. The rig and its crew confront dangers from temperatures far below zero, from fire, and from a subtle and complex intrigue ruthlessly executed by men whose objectives do not include the welfare of Fyffe One. This first novel tells a powerful story with conviction, a story to spellbind the reader and a mystery to be solved.
North Slope, by Michael Parker- Amazon Sales Rank: #713330 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-11
- Released on: 2015-05-11
- Format: Kindle eBook
From the Author North Slope's reviews have climbed steadily, and although there are always highs and lows, it's good to see that the average has not dropped below 4.
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About the Author I was born in Cuckfield, Sussex in 1941 and brought up in London, living in Wandsworth and Battersea. I attended Sir Walter St. John's Grammar School for boys in Battersea until the family moved to Portsmouth in 1954 for my father's health. I continued my education at Southern Grammar School for Boys. I left school and started work as a junior designer at Twilfits (Corset/Brassiere manufacturer). I left after one year and joined the Merchant Navy as a Steward. Two years later I married Pat, my teenage sweetheart (I first laid eyes on her when she was fourteen), and went to work on a building site. Three months later I joined the RAF as an electrician. After 16 years of service I left and worked as an electrical engineer with Ross Foods. After two years I then joined BAC working in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia) for a year followed soon afterwards with another food manufacturer (Mars) for further 17 years. I retired in 1996 and moved out to Spain with Pat in 1997 to live on the Costa Blanca. We have four sons, ten grandchildren and one great-grandson.I have written all my adult life but my very first success came in 1980 when Macmillan published my novel, North Slope. My second success was Shadow of the Wolf published by Robert Hale in 1984. My third, Hell's Gate, published in 2007 by Robert Hale followed by The Eagle's Covenant (2007) and The Devil's Trinity in 2008. The Third Secret was published in March 2009. A Covert War came along in March 2010. My latest novel, The Boy From Berlin was published by Hale in December 2012, and has now been taken up by Harlequin who leased the English language paperback rights for North America and Canada. Harlequin have also published The Eagle's Covenant. My next, published novel, Past Imperfect, is due for release in January 2015 (Robert Hale Ltd.). I have a non-fiction work, A Word in Your Ear (How God changed my retirement plans), which is self published and available on Amazon
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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful. A blast from the past By Jack Everett It is not often I pick up a book and within a few pages get as comfortable as wearing my best house shoes but this book did it for me. Michael Parker's writing reminds me of one of the great escapist mystery adventure writers of the last century: Desmond Bagley. Who else could turn a hopeless drunk into a hero-the last time I saw it was when John Wayne did it for Dean Martin.In the opening sequence our hero is forcibly extracted from a comfortable bar where he has been burying his miseries and taken to meet a former boss whom he hates. It took no large imaginings on my part to figure that these men with history would begin working together once more. It did take a cartload of imagining however to picture where the work was situated on one of the most despicably, hateful environments on earth: North Alaska where if you venture outside for more than a second your eyeballs freeze in their sockets.I could go on at length but suffice is to say that this is a murder mystery that Alistair Mclean would have been proud of and one that P D James could not have written. Read this book and see for yourself.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Editor wanted By Jersey Exile Michael Parker has written a compelling book about oil exploration on the North Slope of Alaska. Unfortunately, he also grafted into this setting a murder mystery. More unfortunate is his lack of an attentive editor.I've been on oil rigs in Wyoming during the winter. It's cold and dangerous. Multiply that cold and danger exponentially, and it must surely be as Parker has described in North Slope. The scenes at the drilling camp, on the rig, traversing the Arctic range by bulldozer and dogsled are vivid and well structured. If this book had simply been about the struggles and terrors of drilling for oil in Alaska, the book would be worth four-to-five stars. His descriptions are that good. But the murder mystery is not. In a way, it's like an Agatha Christie whodunit, with a circumscribed set of suspects within a confined location - not a locked room, but a landlocked (but for a helicopter) setting. I don't find Christie's mysteries interesting, and I didn't find this mystery interesting either.But the biggest problem with this book is the want of an editor. Coffee is always "piping hot." Words are missing as in the sentence, "McKinnon looked at him for seemed like an eternity." I'm pretty sure he's missing the word "what". The word "but" appears as "hut". I have no idea what this means: "The silhouette in the front left-hand oat moved..." Sometimes the word "river," associated with a specific river, is capitalized, and sometimes not. Words are strangely capitalized, such as "company" and "law" though without any context that would suggest capitalization would be proper. The pronoun "I" often appears as the number "1". Comparing two oilmen, Parker writes that "He didn't know which of them had been the best,.." A comparison of two should result in one being "better," not "best". Plots are too frequently described as "evil". In an unnecessary sex scene, the protagonist's lover "put both her hands around the hack of his head." Perhaps that should have been "back of his head," unless "hack" is a part of the cranial anatomy of which I'm unfamiliar.The beauty of an e-book is that it can be edited and republished. I'd suggest Parker find the time to do that.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful. Masterful description of a harsh environment and tough characters By R. Nicholson-morton Apparently, the author wrote this book while working in Saudi Arabia. Set in the claustrophobic oil drilling station in the barren ice desert of Alaska, it's a far cry from the hot sands of Saudi! In fact, even though almost 30 years after its original hardback publication, this book makes for a riveting read.Michael Parker effortlessly inhabits the territory of Hammond Innes with his masterful description of a harsh environment and tough characters. The fact that there's a murderer in the midst of the crew on the drilling operation, which itself is a race against a deadline, keeps the pages turning.Recommended.
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