The Captain's Lady

by Basil Heatter

MORE THAN FRIENDLY

"This is a tough, fast-moving story liberally salted with sex, about a discontented war veteran who sets up a charter-boot business in on unfriendly Florida town. In bucking a murderous boat monopoly, he makes friends with a crippled boy, a couple of old soaks and a red-headed girl who is more than friendly."

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1950

About the author

Basil Heatter, the son of radio commentator Gabriel Heatter, was born on Long Island on March 26, 1918. He attended schools in Connecticut, then went abroad when was 16 for a two year travel stint through Europe. Returning to America, he went to work for a New York advertising agency. He enlisted in the Navy in 1940 and during WWII served as a skipper on a P.T. boat in the Southwest Pacific. Besides being a news commentator himself, Heatter wrote twenty novels of intrigue and adventure—beginning with "The Dim View" in 1946, the story of a young PT boat skipper—as well as several non-fiction works revolving around his love of the sea. In fact, he lived for years off Key West on his own self-built sailboat, The Blue Duck. He passed away June 12, 2009, in Miami, Florida

Reviews

[Tony · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book by chance buying it from a charity shop in Wimbledon. I did not know any of the characters described in these readings but they became fascinating and made me do some further reading on them. The author is obviously a very good historian but he has crafted the book well so it is not just a rehash of known facts. The Captain's Lady seemed to be way ahead of her time and I admired her resilience and attitude without always agreeing with her actions. By the end of the book I still didn't know if she was a hero or a villain or maybe just somewhere in between but she certainly was someone to admire.

Also, the piece written by someone about this book describing its content is not accurate and seems to relate to another book.