The Salving of the "Fusi Yama": A Post-War Story of the Sea

The war is over, but peace feels like a prison. Jack Villiers and Bobby Beverley, two Royal Navy officers just demobilized into an England still reeling from the Great War, find civilian life unbearable. The routines of ordinary work feel like slow suffocation after years of action. When a cryptic advertisement appears seeking ex-service men for a venture of some hazard, they leap at it. The mission: find the Fusi Yama, a sunken Japanese vessel rumored to carry a fortune in gold. Sir Hugh Harborough assembles the expedition, and the adventure begins. Westerman writes with the kinetic energy of a man who understands that his readers came of age during the war years and crave stimulation, not safety. This is adventure fiction that understands the particular hunger of a generation that traded the front lines for the drawing room and found the transition unbearable.