William Brinkley
Description
William Brinkley, born in 1917, was a newspaper reporter before spending four years on active Navy duty. Then at Life magazine, he was busy working on a new novel. He is the author of Quicksand and The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia. Random House published the higher priced hardbound edition of Don't Go Near the Water.
Books
Reader's digest condensed books--Volume 4 1978
Volume 120 - #4 My Enemy the Queen - Victoria Holt The Good Old Boys - Elmer Kelton By the Rivers of Babylon - Nelson DeMille Breakpoint - William Brinkley
The last ship
The unimaginable has happened. The world has been plunged into all-out nuclear war. Sailing near the Arctic Circle, the U.S.S. Nathan James is relatively unscathed, but the future is grim and Captain Thomas is facing mutiny from the tattered remnants of his crew. With civilization in ruins, he urges those that remain—one-hundred-and-fifty-two men and twenty-six women—to pull together in search of land. Once they reach safety, however, the men and women on board realize that they are earth’s last remaining survivors—and they’ve all been exposed to radiation. When none of the women seems able to conceive, fear sets in. Will this be the end of humankind?
Don't go near the water
This is the hilarious novel that all America is laughing with — the ribald and raucous adventures of a group of Navy public relations men who are sitting out the war on a fabulous Pacific Island. Now an Avon Production, presented by M-G-M, starring Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Anne Francis and Keenan Wynn. "If a funnier, more enjoyable, more deeply satisfying, more literate topical satire . . . has been published in a long, long I time, this reviewer can't name it." — N.Y. Times Book Review