Product Description

Here at a last is a new novel in the great tradition of grand adventure tales, the likes of which have seldom been seen since the works of Robert Louis Stevenson. This epic adventure is the story Nick McIver, a lad who sets out to become 'the hero of his own life'.

The setting is England, 1939, on the eve of war. Nick and his sister Kate live in a lighthouse on the smallest of the Channel Islands. Nick, Kate and their father are engaged in a desperate war of espionage with the German U-boat fleets that are circling the islands prior to invasion. The information they provide daily to Winston Churchill is vital as he tries to warn England of the imminent Nazi invasion.

In a surprising twist, Nick discovers an old seachest sent to him by his ancestor, Captain Nicholas McIver of the Royal Navy. Nick returns to the year 1805 via a time machine and help save Captain McIver and, indeed, Admiral Nelson's entire fleet from the treachery of the French and the mutinous Captain Billy Blood.

In the climactic sea battle with Captain Blood, Nick's love of the sea, and his feats of derring-do, indisputably prove his courage and heroism.

His sister Kate, meanwhile, has enlisted the aid of two of England's most brilliant detectives, Lord Hawke, and Commander Hobbes, to thwart the Nazis. They prove themselves more than a match for England's underwater enemies, when they discover the existence of Germany's super-secret experimental submarine.

In the end, Nick and Kate prove themselves heroes in the eyes of two of England's greatest warriors: Admiral Nelson and Winston Churchill.

Product Details

• Published on: 2001-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .2 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

About the Author
Theodore Bell is the Vice Chairman and Worldwide Creative Director of Young & Rubicam, one of the largest advertising agencies in the world. Over the course of his career, his writing has won every top creative prize the industry bestows, including Clios, One Show Gold Awards, and a number of Bronze, Silver, and Gold Lions at the prestigious Cannes Festival.

Bell has authored a number of screenplays, one of which was optioned in Hollywood.

Nick of Time is Mr. Bell's first novel.

He is currently hard at work on his second novel.