Seawitch (novel)

Infobox Book
name = Seawitch
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image_caption = Cover of 1977 USA paperback edition
author = Alistair MacLean
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Thriller novel
publisher = Collins; paperback by Fawcett Crest
release_date = 1977
media_type = Print
pages = 286
isbn = 0449235971
preceded_by = The Golden Gate
followed_by = Goodbye California

"Seawitch" is a novel written by the Scottish author Alistair MacLean. It was first released in the United Kingdom by Collins in 1977 and later in the same year by Doubleday in the United States. The book deviates from MacLean's usual mystery/drama formula in that it is almost all action, with no mystery and no "traitor amongst them" sub-plot.

Plot introduction

Lord Worth, ruthless and fabulously wealthy, has made a lot of enemies in the oil business. His new offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, named "Seawitch", is one of the biggest in the world, and will put his competitors out of business. To destroy it and therefore be able to inflate the price of oil at will, the competitors get together and send one man to deal with Lord Worth. The villain has a personal score to settle with Worth and kidnaps him and his daughters (one with black and one with Titian hair). Fortunately for Lord Worth, his two daughters are betrothed to the protagonists, Mitchell and Roomer, two former police detectives/now private investigators. They set trying to save Worth and his daughters from certain death, as the villain intends to leave them on "Seawitch" when he destroys it with a stolen nuclear weapon.