A celebration of history, ships, naval battles, machines and love stories.

Literary fiction, Thriller

The story of yachtsman David Marek who has to sail from Boston to Europe on the Russian ship Onega. While waiting for his companions he spends his free time visiting the sites. At one of them, he discovers a secret, the uncovering of which takes some time… It is 1946, the war is far from over and Great Britain can be saved from capitulation by the HX 402 convoy which has been assembled in Halifax, Nova Scotia. From Boston it is accompanied by the SMS Jizera, a frigate from the Czech Squadron of the Danube Federation, with lieutenant David Marek on board… The object of his attention, a certain lady-in-waiting, is to travel with him. Which of these David Mareks is the real one? There are two interlinking plots in The Fateful Convoy divided by the perspective of the narrator.

 

 

František Novotný (1944) is a science-fiction writer, computer technician, model maker and yachtsman. In addition to sci-fi he also writes factual literature. The start of his literary career is connected to a group of sci-fi writers which was set up in the mid-1980s around the Karel Čapek Award, and which heralded a new era in the development of Czech sci-fi. As the first winner of the award, František Novotný’s debut work was published in 1988. He is also the author of the grand saga Valhala, one of the most important texts in Czech fantastic literature, where the author links the world of two ancient northern mythologies with the two world wars from the last century.