Když je spolkly vlny – Smith Mark (2026)

The first rule of rescue is not to increase the number of victims. Grace has just encountered every teacher’s worst nightmare. After a demanding day in the Australian wilderness, she stands on the shore of a turbulent ocean and watches three students being swept by powerful currents out to sea. During a several-day expedition where secondary-school students learn survival skills far from civilisation, a group of teenage boys secretly escape the teachers’ attention and decide to swim in the ocean. By the time Grace sees them, they are already far from shore. As a trained rescuer, she knows that helping them would mean risking her own life. Should she stay on the beach, or attempt the impossible and almost certainly die in a battle that appears lost from the start? In the chaos of the following days, Grace must face the grieving parents, while new facts begin to surface. Who encouraged the boys to undertake their deadly adventure? Who is responsible for their deaths? And whom can Grace still trust? This gripping psychological thriller set on the Australian coast draws on the author’s personal experience as a secondary-school wilderness instructor and volunteer rescuer.