Medusa / The Doomed Oasis Omnibus

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Medusa -->Gareth Lloyd-Jones is the insecure young commander of HMS Medusa an obsolete British frigate with a crew of troublemakers currently assigned to the western Mediterranean. When the ship is ordered to Mahon port city of the Spanish Balearic island of Minorca Lloyd-Jones finds himself at a flash point of East-West confrontation. On a personal level he also becomes locked in a struggle with narrator Mike Steele an English resident of Minorca for the attentions of Steele's wife Suzanne. Innes again spins the threads of terrorism international intrigue and personal challenges into a novel calculated to please his many readers. Though the story's pace is sometimes slowed by narrative details patient readers will be rewarded with a high-suspense ending...The Doomed Oasis -->The story of two men and their fight to save an oasis from the encroaching sands of the Empty Quarter. The great desert of the Empty Quarter provides a backdrop to the tragic friction that develops between them...