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Aboard the Navy's 888-ft. aircraft carrier Bennington, Commander Michael Hanley, off-duty air group commander, slept peacefully through the usual clamor of the morning launching of jet fighters...
...last jet was shot off, Hanley snapped awake, suddenly aware of a strange hissing noise coming from the giant hydraulic catapult mechanism on the deck just over his head. He was hardly out of bed before he felt the soft concussion of a flash-fire explosion, then the rending blast of a second that shook Big Ben from stem to stern...
...CLOSED HARBOR (315 pp.)-James Hanley-Horizon...
...critics' raves paid their way in royalties, a 52-year-old Irishman named James Hanley might well be one of the richest authors alive. When his novel, The Closed Harbor, appeared in Britain last year, Fellow Novelist Henry Green said of Hanley: "He is far and away the best writer of the sea and of seafaring men since Conrad, and indeed in my opinion is much superior to him." Said the Times Literary Supplement: "[One of his] greatest achievements-and of their kind there are none superior." This is a fair sample of what the critics have been saying...
...keeping the emotional wringer pressed morbidly tight, Novelist Hanley sometimes squeezes life as well as mercy out of his story. Powerful though it is, The Closed Harbor never quite proves its intended point, that the perdition of Marius is the condition...