TimeStorm

<p>In 1795 a convict ship leaves England for New South Wales in Australia. Nearing its destination it encounters a savage storm but miraculously their battered ship stays afloat and limps into Sydney Harbour. Here the convicts rebel overpower the crew and make their escape destroying the ship in the process. Fleeing the sinking vessel with only the clothes on their backs the survivors struggle ashore.</p><p>Among the escaped convicts seething resentments fuel an appetite for brutal revenge against their former captors while for their part the crew attempts to track down and kill or recapture the escapees. However it soon becomes apparent that both convicts and crew have more to concern them than shipwreck and a ruthless fight for survival; they have arrived in Sydney in 2017.</p><p><em>TimeStorm</em> is a thrilling epic adventure story of revenge survival and honour set in a strange new world of unfamiliar technology and equally unfathomable social norms. In the literary footsteps of Hornblower comes Lieutenant Christopher 'Kit' Blaney an old-fashioned hero a man of honour duty and principle dragged into the 21st century... literally.</p><p>A great fan of the grand seafaring adventure fiction of CS Forester Patrick O'Brien and Alexander Kent and modern action thriller writers such as Lee Child Steve Harrison combines several genres in his debut novel.</p><p>The book was inspired by a replica 18th century sailing ship on Sydney Harbour and a question from Steve's brother Tony: What if that was a real convict ship?</p><p><em>TimeStorm</em> explores that question in a fast-paced story as a group of desperate men from the 1700s clash in modern-day Sydney.</p><p><em>TimeStorm</em> was Highly Commended in the 2013 Jim Hamilton Award fantasy/science fiction category of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) National Literary Awards</p>