Night Over Water

By Ken Follett

September 1939. England is at battle with Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world’s most opulent airliner—the mythical Pan Am clipper—takes off for its ultimate flight to impartial the US. Aboard are the cream of society and the dregs of humanity, all fleeing the struggle for purposes in their own…shadowed by means of a risk they don't know exists…and heading immediately right into a hurricane of violence, intrigue, and betrayal….

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