Boston, March 1990: During the St Patricks Day revelries, thirteen priceless works of art a Vermeer, Rembrandts, a Manet arestolenfrom the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.With no leads for the police to follow, itseems as though theyve all but evaporated into a bleak New England nightOn the South Fork of Long Island one hundred and fifty miles away Jake Dealer is amongst the last ofa three-hundred-yeartradition of Americas seafaring history. A fisherman born with an innate ability to read the Atlantics unforgiving waters, from which he ekes out a living; his horizons definedonly by his familyand theocean.A plot put into motionin Boston where moneyand power hold different meanings will change the course of his life. And when, in the wake of a devastating tragedy, Jake is unwittingly ensnared in the greatest unsolved art theft in history, hes leftfighting to cling on to the only certainties he has ever known.A white-knuckle thriller and a haunting portrait of a disappearing American frontier,No Mans Landweaves together themesof survival, redemption and the brutal price of silence. Simon Gaul charts new territory in the American literary seascape, creating an indelible portrait of both a vanishing way of life and the depths of human resilience. Just how far will someone go to protect what matters most?