The next morning, the Titanic was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. Eight distress rockets were fired during the dark hours of the midnight watch, and eight rockets were ignored. "The Midnight Watch" is a fictional telling of what may have occurred that night on the "SS Californian," and the resulting desperation of Officer Stone and Captain Lord in the aftermath of their inaction.Īs the Titanic and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. When they learned the extent of the tragedy, they did everything they could to hide their role in the disaster, but pursued by newspapermen, lawyers, and political leaders in America and England, their terrible secret was eventually revealed. The next morning, the "Titanic" was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the "SS Californian" sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the "Titanic" fired. Based on true events, The Midnight Watch is at once a heart-stopping mystery and a deeply knowing novel - about the frailty of men, the strength of women, the capriciousness of fate and the price of loyalty.Īs the "Titanic" and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Haunted by the fifteen hundred who went to their deaths in those icy waters, and by the loss of his own baby son years earlier, Steadman must either find redemption in the Titanic's tragedy or lose himself. So begins his strange journey towards the truth. As soon as he lays eyes on the Californian's captain and second officer, he knows a story lurks behind their version of events. Why not? When the story of the disaster begins to emerge, it's a question that Boston American reporter John Steadman cannot let go. The other ship, the Californian, saw these rockets but didn't come. Just after midnight the Titanic began firing distress rockets. She called for help by Morse lamp and the new Marconi telegraph machine, but there was no response. As the Titanic was sinking slowly in the wretchedly cold North Atlantic, she could see the lights of another ship on the horizon. Sometimes the smallest of human failings can lead to the greatest of disasters.
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