The Ninth Wave
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"The Ninth Wave" by Eugene Burdick. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Eugene Burdick. The Ninth Wave
The Ninth Wave
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1
The Ninth Ninth Wave
CHAPTER 2
Make Birds Touch Wings
CHAPTER 3
Across the Grapevine
CHAPTER 4
The Experiment
CHAPTER 5
Close to your Vest
CHAPTER 6
Hot Bread and Butter
CHAPTER 7
Young Love
CHAPTER 8
“Ungrateful Voluble, Dissemblers ...”
CHAPTER 9
Vox Populi, Vox Dei
CHAPTER 10
On Muscatel and Nerve and Life and Death
CHAPTER 11
The Pacific, 1942
CHAPTER 12
In the Sunshine and Under Grapes
CHAPTER 13
“Our Forces Suffered Light Losses ...”
CHAPTER 14
“No Rust of Superstition”
CHAPTER 15
The Pacific, 1945
CHAPTER 16
End of the Invisible Hand
CHAPTER 17
The Ocean and the Desert
CHAPTER 18
Memories
CHAPTER 19
A Tiny Systolic Splash
CHAPTER 20
“A Low But Certain Ground”
CHAPTER 21
The Convention
CHAPTER 22
“Bind Not the Madmen...”
CHAPTER 23
An Honest Man
CHAPTER 24
“As Men Grow More Alike ...”
CHAPTER 25
Two Calm Men
CHAPTER 26
A Monday Morning Ride
CHAPTER 27
Election Year
CHAPTER 28
Talk in a Delicatessen
CHAPTER 29
The Dream
CHAPTER 30
“A Power Absolute, Minute, Regular, Provident, and Mild”
CHAPTER 31
The Last Green Hump
CHAPTER 32
Along the Shore
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Eugene Burdick
Published by Good Press, 2021
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For a moment they stood calmly as the wave moved forward. The only noise in the vast moving green world was the hissing of the boards over the water. Then from deep in the wave came a sound like rocks rolling together and with a curious lunge it broke. A great green tunnel of roaring water was formed in front of the wave, foam gathered as high as Mike’s waist and the board almost dropped away from under his feet. With a slight liquid shock the board landed on solid water and although Mike’s feet slipped for a moment he remained steady. He looked sideways and saw that Hank also had survived the crash of the wave.
Mike’s board chittered with speed, slapped a thousand blows against the water. They were rushing toward the blue water of the cove and the noise was enormous.
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