Book description
The luxurious liner is found floating off the Peruvian coast missing
its 2600 passengers, including a man transporting 0,000,000 in diamonds,
an American lawyer, and the "lifetime president" of Paraguay.
Harry Harrison (1925 - 2012)
Harry Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Connecticut, in 1925.
He is the author of a number of much-loved series including the
Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero sequences and the
Deathworld Trilogy. He is known as a passionate advocate of Esperanto,
the most popular of the constructed international languages, which
appears in many of his novels. He has been publishing novels for over
half a century and is perhaps best known for his seminal novel of
overpopulation, Make Room! Make Room!, which was adapted into the cult
film Soylent Green. He died in 2012.
