The Keepers Son, Homer Hickam
The Keepers Son, Homer Hickam
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The Keeper's Son

Author: Homer Hickam

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Unabridged: 12 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/03/2003

Synopsis

On the outer banks of the Carolinas in 1941, fishermen and a few lonely sailors constitute the human population. Dominating the rough yet beautiful landscape is the majestic Killakeet Lighthouse, run for generations by the Thurlow family. But Josh Thurlow, the lighthouse keeper's son, has forsworn his heritage to become the commander of a small Coast Guard patrol boat.

Tortured by twenty years of guilt for losing his brother at sea, Josh still searches for him, even while a looming wolf pack of German U-boats threatens to decimate the shipping lanes off the coast. One of the U-boats is captained by a hardened Nazi, Otto Krebs. But Captain Krebs may bring ashore more than the war - he may also have the answer to Josh Thurlow's quest.

About The Author

Homer Hickam was born and raised in Coalwood, West Virginia. The author of Torpedo Junction (a Military History Book-of-the-Month Club selection) as well as numerous articles for such publications as Air & Space/Smithsonian and American History Illustrated, he is a NASA payload training manager for the International Space Station program and lives in Huntsville, Alabama.Michael Kramer is an actor, director, and narrator. He has recorded more than 100 audiobooks, as well as titles for the Library of Congress Talking Books program. Among the recognition he has garnered for his narration are AudioFile magazine’s Earphones Award and the Torgi Award. Mr. Kramer lives in Washington, DC, where he is active in the area’s theater scene, and has appeared in productions at the Shakespeare Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and Theater J.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nomanisan on April 02, 2011

This is one of those books one might want to give up on in its early stages, but it was my experience that staying with it was well worth it. This novel, based on meticulous research by Hickam of the destruction of US ships (military and civilian) off the East Coast, begins to really carry one along......more

Goodreads review by Dave on January 28, 2017

This reader is wondering if the book rates a 2 Star and ends giving the book, a 5 Star.. Why, Guess it's the fact I'm a Coast Guardsman, admitting that, yes the lighting of the light house mantle is correct, the CG had these many different types of stations and cutters and yes the Outer Banks produc......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on May 14, 2017

Set on the Outer Banks fictional island of Killakeet, this novel chronicles the entrance of the U.S. into WWII, and the slowness of our military to respond to the attackes by German U-boats on merchant and passenger ships traveling the Atlantic sea lanes along the coast. Partly told from the point o......more

Goodreads review by Anne on May 04, 2011

This is a true story about the people who inhabited the islands along the outer banks of N.C. They were mostly fishermen and their families who had lived there all their life and had never traveled far from these islands. They played an interesting and significant role in the beginning of World War......more

Goodreads review by Andy on March 01, 2008

Although this is fiction, it takes place along the NC coast around what is most likely Cape Lookout. It takes place during WWII, and reviews the main character's experiences serving on a small boat defending the US coastline against U-boats. It is an entertaining story, and I am looking forward to r......more

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