In 1795 a convict ship leaves England for New
South Wales in Australia. Nearing its destination, it encounters a
savage storm but, miraculously, their battered ship stays afloat and
limps into Sydney Harbour. Here, the convicts rebel, overpower the crew and make their escape, destroying the ship in the process. Fleeing the sinking vessel with only the clothes on their backs, the survivors
struggle ashore. Among the escaped convicts, seething resentments fuel
an appetite for brutal revenge against their former captors while, for
their part, the crew attempts to track down and kill or recapture the
escapees. However, it soon becomes apparent that both convicts and crew have more to concern them than shipwreck and a ruthless fight for
survival; they have arrived in Sydney in 2017.
TimeStorm is a thrilling epic adventure
story of revenge, survival and honour set in a strange new world of
unfamiliar technology and equally unfathomable social norms. In the
literary footsteps of Hornblower, comes Lieutenant Christopher ‘Kit’
Blaney, an old-fashioned hero, a man of honour, duty and principle,
dragged into the 21st century... literally.
A great fan of the grand seafaring adventure
fiction of CS Forester, Patrick O’Brien and Alexander Kent, and modern
action thriller writers such as Lee Child, Steve Harrison combines
several genres in his debut novel. The book was inspired by a replica
18th century sailing ship on Sydney Harbour and a question from Steve’s
brother, Tony: “What if that was a real convict ship?” TimeStorm explores that question in a fast-paced story as a group of desperate men from the 1700s clash in modern-day Sydney.
