His Bones are Coral
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| Author | Victor Canning |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton (UK) Sloane (US) |
Publication date | 1955 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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His Bones are Coral is a 1955 thriller novel by the British writer Victor Canning. It was published in the United States with the alternative title of Twist of the Knife.[1] The title is a reference to William Shakespeare's Full fathom five from The Tempest.
Howard Smith, a pilot flying between Cairo and Port Sudan with a cargo of illicit drugs crash-lands in the desert near a port on the Red Sea. Escaping from the wreckage and needing to find a way out of his problems, he accept an offer from a marine biologist to take part in a coral-finding expedition in shark-infested waters.
