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Think the HMS Titanic hit an iceberg by accident? Think that the whole situation befalling the steamship was clearly a situation of being in the wrong place at the wrong time? You might rethink your answer once you read this novel.

Titanic: Echo of the Dying Confession is the historical, supernatural fiction, based specifically around the factual details surrounding the design, creation, and ultimately the sinking of the steamship Titanic opens a new door as to what  caused it to be destroyed.

"With accuracy and a readable style of writing that captures the Victorian/Edwardian manner of speaking, Troy Veenstra has retold the story of the steamship Titanic's sinking. "Titanic: Echo of the Dying Confession" tells of the English narrator's anger against Americans for taking over his father's failing shipline and how that anger turns to revenge as in his fury, he sells his soul to the Devil.

That the narrator has to witness and then regret the horrors of his demands makes this a highly recommended Christian novel without the platitudes and preaching dialogue that often revolts readers.

Reviews:  

What a great read 31 Jan 2014 - Ken Titanic Fan - Amazon.co.uk 

I simply loved this book. The story is very well written and the characters very strong and believable. It is a great fictional read set in the excepted history of Titanic.

Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite 3/20/2013

The incredible steamship named Titanic sank on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic on April 15, 1912, and books have been written and movies produced about this tragic steamship disaster. Troy Veenstra has written "Titanic: Echo of the Dying Confession" which covers the Titanic's demise but with a different slant. In journal format, the narrator of this chilling version tells of how he sought revenge for his father's tragic loss of his ownership of the famed White Star Lines when the White Star board sells the shipping line to American millionaire J.P. Morgan. The narrator is angered, incensed that his father, whom he worshiped, is treated badly by business associates and the building of the super steamships, the Olympic, the Titanic, and the Gigantic are to be built. The rest is well-known history.

"Titanic: Echo of the Dying Confession" is a unique work of fiction about the Titanic. Using italics to convey conversation, the author has the narrator transcribing his thoughts as he is dying. Once young, the narrator is now an old and grieving man as he sits on his ocean-side estate and gazes upon the Atlantic Ocean which he refers to as a "massive rolling grave site". He thinks of the revenge he sought and the pain it caused those who perished. This journal is long, descriptive and very Victorian, as befits the memories of a gentleman born in 1856. On page 199, the narrator says that his memoirs as contained in this story are "the longest confession of one man's transgressions ever written upon paper. But the writing is just how a man of those times would express himself, and the characters of both fictional and real people of the Titanic are true to the times and to history. Titanic fans and most of the others will love reading "Titanic: Echo of the Dying Confession."

This is an excellent novel. - Sheila Rae Myers, Author

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Great Book with Alternative Historical events

 An awesome book. Does a great job of sticking to historically accurate details while at the same time creating a fresh and interesting fictional perspective on one of the most fascinating events of the twentieth century. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about the great ship Titanic.