On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:21:50 -0500, Marty wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:34:15 -0500, Marty wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
There is a book about that same thing only it was diamonds Smuggled
out of Britain to evade currency restrictions and smuggled back inside
an engine from a lethal wreck near Tahiti.
Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute is what I sort of remember,
so i checked, Suspicion confirmed.

Casady
Lord, I remember reading that book years ago. As I had been a
machinist early in my career I thought it was a really good read.
Funny though I remember that the guy had a machine shop in his house
but not the diamonds.
Same here Bruce, read it more than 30 years ago when I was a teen.
Didn't remember the plot, but remembered the machinist aspect, envied it
in fact. Now I have a machine shop fifty feet from my front door,
better than having it in the basement,, at least in the opinion of "She
who must be obeyed"

I really liked Shute, until I learned more about the man himself and I
was left with rather bitter taste in my mouth.

Cheers
Martin


I have only read a couple of his books, Trustee from the Tool room and
On the Beach. Both of which I liked. Never read up on the author

"A Town Like Alice" and "A Far Country" are particularly good,, "No
Highway" is cool, he predicted metal fatigue taking down an airliner
before the Comet problems...

Cheers
Martin


From what little I read about him, after someone commented above, it
appears that he must have been a reasonably competent engineer as well
as a damned good author.

I wonder whether he actually foresaw the comet problem or whether he
just hung a story on metal fatigue?

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)