90INTERVIEWRICHARD ATTREE
I’ve written all I want to write about windsurfing – for the
moment... but I could be persuaded to revisit Nick and write
a sequel to ‘Too Close to the Wind’ if it sells well and enough
people convince me that it’s worth doing… and as I
mentioned, I’m working on my autobiography: ‘The Wind of
Change – memoirs of a Windsurfing Baby Boomer’.
Plenty to be getting on with… watch this space:
www.RichardAttree.com
‘Too Close to the Wind’
Nick has always been an outsider.
Half Aboriginal, half Irish, he escaped
from an impoverished fishing town in
Western Australia. Now he’s running
from a drug deal gone wrong, living like
a ghost in the Canary Islands and his
only friends are the wind and waves.
Windsurfing is his obsession, his escape from self-
loathing. But when his rig falls apart, like his life,
he finds himself drifting alone in the Atlantic.
As the sun rises on his last day alive, a yacht appears
and offers him a lifeline. But there’s a price to pay…
The owner, an enigmatic figure known to his crew as
the Master, is the leader of a shadowy cult. He offers
Nick a way out of his stalled life – a series of missions:
to the haunted Haitian rainforest, the remote
Australian outback, and the wild west coast of Ireland.
The puppet master pulls the strings – Nick’s quest is to
discover why. Too Close to the Wind is an
incredible story of survival, an epic travel adventure, a
dark journey into the unknown, and a celebration of
wind, surf, and the human spirit.
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