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Five years after the body of the Somerton Man was found on the beach, a stranger rowed ashore with a mission for two children.
The shocking TRUE STORY of a young boy's bizarre Cold War encounter in 1951 with a Russian stranger on the infamous Australian beach where a mysterious body was found only a few years earlier, poisoned and connected to a discarded book containing a baffling encoded message that remains unbroken to this day.
And now the Russian sailor who met two boys on the beach in the exact same spot.
A Bizarre Encounter
This compelling short story is a narrative retelling of the real experience of the author's father that interconnects with one of Australia's most baffling mysteries: the Somerton Man.
Recent claims of genealogical identification are still unverified by the authorities, and the puzzle of the body found on Somerton Beach in 1948 remains peppered with unanswered questions – the poison, the location, the train ticket, the clothing labels, the woman known as Jestyn, and most importantly the strangely discarded book bearing the encrypted letters that haven't been cracked in 75 years by the world's best codebreakers.
