Night Over Water (Ken Follett)

Set during the outbreak of the Second World War, Night Over Water is a feat of storytelling from the bestselling master of the historical thriller, Ken Follett.On a bright September morning in 1939, two days after Britain has declared war, a group of privileged but desperate people gather in Southampton to board the largest, most luxurious airliner ever built - the Pan American Clipper, bound for New York: an English aristocrat, fleeing with his family and a fortune in jewels, a German scientist, escaping from the Nazis, a murderer under FBI escort, a young wife running away from a domineering husband, and a handsome, unscrupulous thief . . .