Title:
In the Wet by Nevil Shute
Description: A classic adventure from the author of
A Town Like Alice and
On the Beach.
It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world…
Wowio also offers a number of other Shute novels for online reading such as
Marazan and
The Rainbow and the Rose.