3 Novels by Hank Searls
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Overview: Born Henry Hunt Searls Jr. novelist and screenwriter Hank Searls, author of the best-selling Overboard, Jaws II (based on the movie), and Sounding, is creator of the New Breed TV series and writer for the 1960’s classic television series The Fugitive . His novel Pilgrim Project became Robert Altman’s film Countdown. He has lived most of his life on, under, or over the ocean, having been a world-cruising yachtsman, underwater photographer, and Navy flier.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
The Pilgrim Project (1964) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2015)
In a gripping, relentlessly paced novel, Hank Searls boldly takes his readers behind the scenes and probes the greatest drama shaping today’s headlines. The Pilgrim Project is the story of our race to the moon, and it is told in language so realistic, with characters so vividly alive, that we experience, as readers, all the triumphs and terrors of today’s epic tale of cosmic adventure—our advance in outer space.
When a routine orbital flight is interrupted for no reason—and at a tremendous cost to the nation—official excuses are too lame to satisfy the press, and far too mysterious for a crew brought back to Earth without apparent reason.
But one of the crew members, a famous colonel, does understand, and can scarcely conceal his elation, for he has long since been chosen for a top-secret project that will land him on the moon, and he knows that the moment has come.
The Hero Ship (1969) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2015)
Ben Casco assumes command of the colossal aircraft carrier Shenandoah—jinxed home of twenty-five hundred demoralized seamen and pilots—at the grim height of her last battle. Under Japanese air assault, culminating in a kamikaze attack, the huge vessel becomes a scene of carnage, cowardice, and courage never surpassed in the history of naval warfare.
The Shenandoah’s disastrous encounter with the Japanese, based on one of the great episodes of valor of World War II, is the climax of a rich, stirring novel of seafaring men at war. The nobility or baseness of a man’s response to unrelenting onslaught is masterfully depicted through the juxtaposition of the book’s vigorous characters: Mitch—humane, dedicated career officer; Hammering Howie Howland—ambitious, publicity-mad admiral; Christy Lee—golden-haired athlete, young man on the make; and Ben himself—maverick officer risen from the ranks, barely tolerated by Annapolis men until his refusal to abandon his fire-gutted ship covers her and the pitiful remnant of her crew with glory.
Ben’s inevitable conflict with Lee, the Academy football hero whose rise through the ranks seems assured, is resolved only twenty-three years later when Ben emerges from retirement to challenge Lee’s bid for the Navy’s highest post. The long, painful contest between the two comes to involve a senator, a survivor turned Washington-lawyer, an ex-kamikaze, and even Ben’s lovely wife, Terry. Its ironic conclusion is played out against a background of tense action and authentic detail that brilliantly illuminates the characters of the men who served aboard The Hero Ship.
Firewind (1981) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2015)
Santa Barbara, penned between mountains and sea, is utterly vulnerable to the yearly desert gale. The hot winds blow for weeks—tempers flare, brush fires race down from the tinder-dry hills, and arsonists are drawn like moths to the flame. One of them, a murderous pyromaniac, is stalking the brush-filled canyons, cleverly encircling the city with a wall of fire.
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