Endangered Species (1992)
“Indispensable as it had been to his recent performance as a surgeon, it was a disastrous accompaniment to what was now required of him. Out on the bridge-wing as the Matthew Flinders staggered under the onslaught of yet another heavy sea, Mackinnon could see he was in for a long and lonely night. In the darkness he studied the height and period of the waves as the breaking crests, exploding with a malevolent luminosity of their own, roared down upon them. The near-gale he had left the ship hove...-to in had become a storm, the wind above fifty knots, he estimated, Force Ten on the Beaufort scale.
Waves of fatigue had swept over him as he had cleaned himself in his cabin, washing the blood from his hands, staring at the lined and bronzed yet pallid features in the mirror.
In a moment of weakness he had leaned his face against the cool glass and groaned. Shelagh was flying out to Hong Kong: the recollection stiffened him. In a day or two she would expect him to bring his ship into the ‘fragrant harbour’ of the Crown Colony.MoreLess
Waves of fatigue had swept over him as he had cleaned himself in his cabin, washing the blood from his hands, staring at the lined and bronzed yet pallid features in the mirror.
In a moment of weakness he had leaned his face against the cool glass and groaned. Shelagh was flying out to Hong Kong: the recollection stiffened him. In a day or two she would expect him to bring his ship into the ‘fragrant harbour’ of the Crown Colony.MoreLess
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