Vendor
	Fritz Agency Christian Dittus
Original language
English
Categories
Thriller / suspense fiction

THE LAST SHIP

William Brinkley

An extraordinary novel of men at war (The Washington Post) and the book that inspired the TNT TV mini-series, starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, Adam Baldwin and Michael Bay as Executive Producer

The unimaginable has happened. The world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the U.S.S. Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim and Captain Thomas is facing mutiny from the tattered remnants of his crew. With civilization in ruins, he urges those that remainone-hundred-and-fifty-two men and twenty-six womento pull together in search of land. Once they reach safety, however, the men and women on board realize that they are earth's last remaining survivorsand they've all been exposed to radiation. When none of the women seems able to conceive, fear sets in. Will this be the end of humankind?

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Book Published 1988-03-01 by Viking

Comments

The author of Don't Go Near the Water superbly depicts life on a U.S. Navy destroyer after a heavy nuclear exchange. That women are now integrated into the navy adds to the interest. The survivors hunt a safe haven where life and perhaps the human race can continue, away from radiation. A Russian submarine, apparently friendly, appears and then is gone, while a group of mutineers irrationally try to return "home." The captain's narration is thoughtful and sensitive. Inexperienced with women, he must oversee the desperate assembly-line attempts to conceive children that he himself does not join. More than a military adventure, this is a first-rate study of beauty amid ghastliness, engrossing to the end.