2 Novels by James Barlow
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Overview: Born in Birmingham in 1921, James Barlow spent his early childhood moving around different parts of the potteries and midlands due to his father’s job working in a bank. His father retired to Wales, because of ill health caused by his time fighting in the 1914/18 war. When his father died in 1936, Barlow who was 16 at the time, and his family moved back to Birmingham. He spent time at a commercial college and then the Birmingham Corporation Water Department until the war. He joined the RAF where he served as a gunner and gunnery instructor until he was invalided out with tuberculosis. It was during this time in several long stays in a sanatorium, that Barlow began to write. Initially it was aeronautical magazines that he wrote for after a debate on a technical matter with colleagues prompted him to write and submit an article on the subject.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Liner
Aging, suffering from neglect and its equipment badly out of date, the Greek liner SS Areopagus heads east towards San Francisco, carrying all on board into the most shattering adventure of their lives . . .
Its crew and passengers are a mixture of the worst and best of humanity. Tornetta, a desperate murderer fleeing from a Mafia executioner, boards the ship but has no qualms about murdering again. On board too are the Burstons, a haunted family running from the memories of a grisly tragedy. Pauline is the beautiful but bi-sexual and self-degrading woman in desperate search of kindness and love. The ship’s doctor, Dempsey, cool and self-possessed, faces in one violent moment, his greatest trial of his career. And then there is Nikolaos Tomazos, First Officer, married to an faithless Australian, and who dreams of taking his wife and children back to Greece. He knows his ship better than anyone else on board, including the captain.
The Areopagus embarks on a voyage that changes many lives, most of all Tomazos’s, whose skill and mental strength is tested to the limits as the ailing ship enters the bulk of the storm.
The Protagonists
THE GIRL
She was red-haired, beautiful and passionate, but she had the essential innocence and trust of the good, the born victim.
‘What’s your real name, Roy? Tell it to me so the baby at least may know who his mother should have married.’
HER LOVER
He lied to her, took her splendid body, used her shamelessly, until she became pregnant and refused an abortion.
‘I told her. She went very pale. She knew now that she had surrendered her everything to someone she didn’t know at all.’
THE DETECTIVE
To him this was more than a murder – it was a hideous, personal outrage.
‘First the girl and her baby,’ he thought. ‘Then her parents, her friends, all victims of the one act of destruction … He needed to kill girls to make him feel good.’
Barlow tells this story from the point of view of the three principal characters. The analysis of the interplay of goodness and evil makes this a clever novel, inspiring pity, terror and a good deal of admiration for the Author’s neat yet compelling style, never losing suspense along the way.
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