Date Started: 1/12/15
Date Finished: 1/15/15
Interesting premise this one...a Nazi ghost ship found in 1939 is empty...except for an infant. Bad things happen to those who enter the ships in the years after the war, even when it was in dry dock. Then it's purchased by an eccentric millionaire, who spares no expense to make the ship sea-worthy - and ready to travel on the exact itinerary as it's first journey. What could go wrong?
Um, everything. It's a GHOST SHIP with a malevolent evil on board. Of course everything will go wrong. Long story short, the millionaire who bought the ship (Jewish, by the way) was the infant found on board and this is his chance to discover what happened to him. He thinks there are some kind of electrical currents circling the globe that cause ghost ships to happen but he really just wants to find out about his family.
Enter reporter Kate Kilroy, fresh off the death of her husband, who is looking for a story to help get her on the path to healing. She ends up on board and starts investigating what's really going on with the ship...and why everyone seems to be going crazy and thinking they're on the ship straight out of 1939.
That's essentially what happens - everyone is taken over by this bad spirit on board and tricked into thinking they're in 1939 and part of the Nazi party. Everyone except Kate, whose dead husband appears to her because she brought his ashes on board. They also make love which isn't weird at all. Anyway, things go really wrong, everyone on the ship dies, and the only thing that saves Kate is the "light" within her - i.e., her new baby, courtesy of her dead husband. Oh and somehow she is the one, back in 1939, who rescues the Jewish infant (after the rest of his family is murdered on-board by a Nazi) and places him where he can be found. So there's some time-travel element to this as well, which if you think too hard about it, will really make your head hurt.
This was a fun thriller of a read. Quick, different from what I typically gravitate to - good times.
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