The Sailing Thrillers · Book 1
Wildtrack
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780241955642
- Type
- novel
About this book
Wildtrack opens Bernard Cornwell's Sailing Thrillers in 1988, following a round-the-world yachtsman turned reluctant detective in a contemporary story built around Cornwell's own passion for sailing. It runs 352 pages and is generally considered one of the strongest entries in the set.
Its place in The Sailing Thrillers
Wildtrack is book 1 in the The Sailing Thrillers series. It is followed by Sea Lord (Killer's Wake). See the full The Sailing Thrillers reading order.
Before Bernard Cornwell became synonymous with Napoleonic-era and Dark Age historical fiction, he wrote five contemporary thrillers built around his own lifelong passion for sailing. Each novel is a self-contained story with a different protagonist, but together they share a template: ordinary people — sailors, ex-soldiers, journalists — pulled into smuggling rings, fraud, political conspiracy, or violent revenge plots that play out largely on and around small boats, English coastal waters, and the sailing world…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780241955642