James Gibson, a young apprentice, saw something that looked like Morse code flashing in the night sky. Charlie Groves, the third officer, watched a ship in the distance suddenly go dark. The mystery encompasses five sailors: Cyril Evans, the wireless man, tried to warn the Titanic of treacherous ice fields, but he was shut down by the other ship's own wireless operator. Playing lead detective is veteran journalist John Steadman, who smells trouble when the Californian arrives in Boston Harbor without any rescued bodies and without any desire to speak to the press. So why didn’t the British ship come to her aid?įrom the muddy streets and dark taverns of Boston to the frigid, murky waters of the North Atlantic, Dyer’s debut novel turns the kaleidoscope, retelling the tale of the unsinkable ship through a new lens. Told not only from the perspective of the SS Californian crew, but also through the eyes of a family of third-class passengers who perished in the disaster, the narrative is drawn together by Steadman, a tenacious Boston journalist who does not rest until the truth is found.As the Titanic slipped into its icy grave, the SS Californian slept just miles away.
The next morning, the Titanic was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. Eight distress rockets were fired during the dark hours of the midnight watch, and eight rockets were ignored. "The Midnight Watch" is a fictional telling of what may have occurred that night on the "SS Californian," and the resulting desperation of Officer Stone and Captain Lord in the aftermath of their inaction.Īs the Titanic and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. When they learned the extent of the tragedy, they did everything they could to hide their role in the disaster, but pursued by newspapermen, lawyers, and political leaders in America and England, their terrible secret was eventually revealed.
The next morning, the "Titanic" was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the "SS Californian" sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the "Titanic" fired. As the "Titanic" and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on.
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