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Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels through the Panama Canal as a passenger on a tanker bound for Europe. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako’s ship is captured, it is not long before the atmosphere is as flammable as an oxy-acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on her cello …
2: Bridge of the World
3: The Universal Company
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12:The Heart of the Universe
demurragen. Rate or amount payable to shipowner by charterer for failure to load or discharge ship within time allowed; similar charge on railway trucks or goods; such detention, delay. [f. OF
demo(u)rage ( demorer, as DEMUR see — AGE)]
tic tic tic tic… Tiny noises of compression, sounding through her skull.
She’d been alarmed, the first time she’d heard them, over the noise of her breathing and the tinny wheezes of the scuba gear which sat on her back, wrapping its plastic limbs round her and jamming
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