Blood Knot; Sam Llewellyn; House of Stratus, 2000; Michael Joseph, 1991; £13.99 New edition by House of Stratus; CA 15851

At the end of a Tall Ships' race, Vixen arrives at Chatham. The next morning the body of a Russian sailor from one of the other tall ships is found caught up in Vixen's stern-gear. How the body got there and the connection with the "dirty tricks" element of the Intelligence Service forms the plot of this nautical thriller. A sub-plot about the search by Vixen's skipper for his father, long thought to be dead but later seen alive in Estonia, allows the story to range from the South coast to the Baltic. Some of the details and situations stretch the imagination to the point of disbelief but, nevertheless, it is a good, readable novel. - RHP

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