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Author Denzil Meyrick<\/strong> takes a semi-departure from his series of Jim Daley novels to conduct us back in time in the same location as those books \u2013 the picturesque Kintyre village of Kinloch, Scotland. The year is 1968, and Empty Nets and Promises<\/a><\/em> offers only one of the regular cast of characters \u2013 Hamish the drunken fisherman with the second sight, a man in his prime at the time of this story.<\/p>\n Hamish, first mate on a fishing boat, is concerned like all his friends about the bad catches that year. Never have they taken so few herring in any man\u2019s memory. He and his friends have a theory as to the cause \u2013 it\u2019s the supersonic test flights coming from a nearby Air Force base. It\u2019s Hamish himself who comes up with a \u201cbrilliant\u201d plan to stop the tests, which involves getting a couple pilots drunk and taking them away to a remote croft so they\u2019ll be AWOL.<\/p>\n Well, it makes sense to them.<\/p>\n But they don\u2019t reckon with the local fisheries inspector, who suspects them of smuggling whisky, and the skipper\u2019s wife and daughter, who suspect them of planning to play a trick on the daughter\u2019s fianc\u00e9 on the eve of the upcoming wedding.<\/p>\n What follows is an amusing comedy of errors that almost leads to nuclear war.<\/p>\n Empty Nets and Promises<\/em> is a funny story, full of vivid, idiosyncratic characters and well-painted landscapes. It\u2019s somewhere between a short story and a novella, and good value for your book-buying dollar at the price. Minor cautions for language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Author Denzil Meyrick takes a semi-departure from his series of Jim Daley novels to conduct us back in time in the same location as those books \u2013 the picturesque Kintyre village of Kinloch, Scotland. The year is 1968, and Empty Nets and Promises offers only one of the regular cast of characters \u2013 Hamish the … Continue reading ‘Empty Nets and Promises,’ by Denzil Meyrick<\/span>