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The incident

Macleod, Kenneth more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date: 24/04/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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Three lives; three turning points. Craig was a teenage lifeguard on a beach in Germany when two children died on his watch. It should never have happened. He was an expert swimmer. His grandfather, Gordon McInnes was on board a ship torpedoed during the war. He survived by clinging to the body of one of his colleagues. Years later, he met one of the crew of the U boat that attacked his ship. Gerd is a refugee of the Cold War. Recruited by the Stasi at a very young age, he escaped to the west after his mission went terribly wrong. He never went back.The Incident is a searingly powerful novel about fate; about those moments that change the course of a life forever. It is also a book about history, from the Second World war through to the current day, and the way incidents long past can have reverberate across generations.