No Man's Land

Boston, March 1990: During the St Patrick's Day revelries, thirteen priceless works of art - a Vermeer, Rembrandts, a Manet -arestolenfrom the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.With no leads for the police to follow, itseems as though they've all but evaporated into a bleak New England night? On the South Fork of Long Island - one hundred and fifty miles away - Jake Dealer is amongst the last ofa three-hundred-yeartradition of America's seafaring history. A fisherman born with an innate ability to read the Atlantic's unforgiving waters, from which he ekes out a living; his horizons definedonly by his familyand theocean. A plot put into motionin Boston - where moneyand power hold different meanings - will change the course of his life. And when, in the wake of a devastating tragedy, Jake is unwittingly ensnared in the greatest unsolved art theft in history, he's leftfighting to cling on to the only certainties he has ever known. A white-knuckle thriller and a haunting portrait of a disappearing American frontier, No Man's Land weaves together themesof survival, redemption and the brutal price of silence. Simon Gaul charts new territory in the American literary seascape, creating an indelible portrait of both a vanishing way of life and the depths of human resilience. Just how far will someone go to protect what matters most?