World Pacific

"World Pacific" is a darkly comic novel set against the backdrop of the looming Second World War, weaving together the lives of Richard Halifax, a boys' adventure writer who mysteriously disappears while sailing from Hong Kong to San Francisco, Hildegard Rauch, an émigré painter unraveling her twin brother’s secret connections to Halifax, and Simon Faulk, a British intelligence officer on the hunt for Nazi spies. As their stories unfold in San Francisco and the Asian Pacific, they navigate themes of intrigue, self-invention, and the personal shipwrecks that accompany them. This captivating tale, told through their intertwined perspectives, examines the complex narratives we create in the struggle to survive.