Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
The Poseidon Adventure was not only a major best-seller but a major motion picture. Unlike the book, the picture ended with the Poseidon still afloat. Determined to send the ship to its inescapable fate, Paul Gallico has written a new novel that combines the characters he made famous with the dramatic flair for which he is noted. The result is a sequel that stands completely on its own—a breathtaking adventure of the horrors of impending disaster and of the danger from those modern-day pirates of the sea: scavengers.
Sixteen hundred people died in the Poseidon when the luxury liner was capsized by a tidal wave. Only six were saved by the French helicopter that swept over the wreckage. And those six had gone through all the tortures of hell in the eight hours they spent working their way out of the inverted ship.
Now their leader, Rogo, the tough New York cop, is demanding at gunpoint to be returned to the Poseidon to see to the secret shipment he had aboard to guard. He finds himself with unexpected company when Manny Rosen, whose beloved wife died trying to help the others to safety, and James Martin, the little haberdasher who had just had the one adventure of his life, determine to join him.
Back the three go, aware they will be reentering a chaotic world in which everything is literally upside down, with death and debris everywhere. And they quickly find things even worse than when they left. For others have come to the site, not to rescue but to plunder, and these newcomers are not afraid to kill for what they want.
Paul Gallico takes his original adventure and makes of it the prelude to a novel that is as dramatic as it is vivid.