{"id":975,"date":"2012-06-24T11:22:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T11:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.wordpress.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2012-06-24T11:22:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T11:22:17","slug":"dead-water-floats-the-irish-timess-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Dead Water floats the Irish Times&#8217;s boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hpim1071.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-976\" title=\"HPIM1071\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hpim1071.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hpim1071.jpg 837w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hpim1071-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Dead-Water-Simon-Ings\/dp\/1848878907\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1340537136&amp;sr=8-3\">Dead Water<\/a> sails into that stormiest of seas, the Indian Ocean, to explore the murky depths of the shipping business along with those of its latter-day evil twin, piracy. In this highly ambitious, hugely entertaining novel \u2013 part sci-fi fable, part cold-war mystery, part ghost story, part hymn to the complexity of wave theory \u2013 Ings weaves multiple plots together, plunging the reader into a vortex of countercurrents from the opening page. The choppiness is dizzying, perhaps even irritating. Stick with it, though. You\u2019ll be rewarded with such engaging characters as Roopa Vish, the Indian police probationer who ends up in bed with the gangster she\u2019s investigating, and Eric Moyse, the shipping magnate who comes up with a wheeze for hiding the planet\u2019s most toxic substances. The locations, from rambunctious Mumbai to odd Oman, are portrayed with visceral vividness, and so is the action, which includes a train crash and a tsunami. After reading this, you\u2019ll never drink water with quite the same insouciance again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/weekend\/2012\/0616\/1224318011962.html\">ARMINTA WALLACE\u00a0in the Irish Times<\/a>, 16 June 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead Water sails into that stormiest of seas, the Indian Ocean, to explore the murky depths of the shipping business along with those of its latter-day evil twin, piracy. In this highly ambitious, hugely entertaining novel \u2013 part sci-fi fable, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=975\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dead-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}