Title: Flags of convenience
Description: Eugene Bryan, a trade writer, takes up a new job with a shipping magazine and suddenly finds himself immersed in a network of intrigue and criminality that characterizes the international shipping industry. United States economic prowess is threatened by a growing trend, the false registration of ships to avoid international regulations. Meanwhile Bryan, in the midst of business imperatives, pursues romantic intrigues of his own.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Journalists, Foreign relations, Flags of convenience, Corrupt practices, Shipping, Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Journalists, fiction
Places: United States, San Francisco (Calif.)
Time periods: 2001-