The Tears Of Dark Water

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A luxury yacht, adrift in the Indian Ocean. On board, a band of nervous Somali captors and their American hostages, Daniel and Quentin. Vanessa, Daniel's wife, waits terrified in America, relying on a hostage negotiator to find a peaceful solution before the military can intervene. On the Somali shore Yasmin, a brutalised young woman, hides a connection to one of the kidnappers that might be the key to peace, or to redemption.Across continents and oceans, through storms and civil wars, their lives come together in a confrontation that leaves them scarred, but also with the hope that out of the bitter ocean can come justice, hope and reconciliation, for their families and for the devastated nation of Somalia.The new novel from the bestselling author of A Walk Across The Sun, Corban Addison's The Tears of Dark Water is a searing novel of the personal and the political. Playing out in courtrooms and private homes, refugee camps and shattered cities, it is a powerful story of hope and understanding in the face of hatred and chaos.